Some recent examples of the 419 scam include one that purported that the reader won a contest related to the London 2012 Olympic Games, asking the user to supply his personal information. In reality, of course, the only transaction taking place would only be the victim sending the their own money to the Nigerian sender, completing the fraud. The reader would then be given a percentage of the deposited money. The most famous of which (and thus gets its name from) is the Nigerian scam, where the sender passes himself off as a wealthy personality from Nigeria that desperately needs a meager amount of money in order to deposit a large sum of cash (usually amounting to millions) into an overseas account, more often than not the user's own. This is due to its deceitful nature through social engineering (pretending to be an official message from an organization) and its way of stealing information (redirecting the user to a spoofed web page where users need to insert personal data) respectively.Ī 419 scam or Nigerian scam usually comes in the form of an email that begins by introducing the sender as someone from a reputable organization, and then asks the reader for financial assistance.
What makes this attack particularly noteworthy is that it resembles a combination of a 419 or Nigerian scam and a phishing attack. However, the link instead leads to a phishing site, which requires users to disclose personal information such as their email addresses and the like. The message then instructs them to click on the link provided in order to access the website so that they could qualify for the cash prize. It informs recipients that they are potential finalists of a supposed sweepstakes.
Trend Micro received samples of an email message that poses as a letter from Reader's Digest India.
0 kommentar(er)
