Showing posts with label spam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spam. Show all posts

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Scam Emails Using Your Friends' Data To Look Legitimate

The Nigerian email scams still holds a place in the "how they used to do it the old days" files of cyber yesterday. I received an email today that reminded me of my Nigerian email scam favorites, but also had harvested the name and signature of a friend, such that the scam took on a very personal nature....the last name has been blotted out to protect the infected:



Ok - so at least my friend quickly figured this out.......but how many takers might bite off on something like this?