I must admit that I was puzzled for a second when I saw an email with a suicide note as a subject line in my spam inbox. I wondered what product they might try to sell with that note or which drive-by download site might be hidden behind it. So, I opened it. The email was actually written like a real suicide note.
In the text of the message, a young Swiss guy explains that he has had enough with the world and that he has given up his painful fight against the Russian cyber-criminals. With some side notes, he explains that he had at least profited a little from their own tricks and was able to transfer some cash for himself from Swiss online banking accounts. Of course, he explains, all in the name of the greater good.
The mail then takes a tangent and tells a story about him catching his girlfriend red-handed with another guy, which finalized his decision of...
The amount of email I have received lately regarding "making easy money from home" has increased tremendously. These “job offers” all have two things in common; you are required to have an online bank account and you must be able to check email frequently. In return for these requirements there are promises that large amounts of money can be made, usually five to ten percent in commission for every payment forwarded to the company headquarters.
To make it even more convincing, fake companies are created and complete Web sites with job offers and background information are generated. Interested parties receive convincing job offers with social benefits and health care plans. So, what's behind it? As you have probably guessed by now, these are recruitment emails from phishers. They are constantly searching for "money mules" that will receive payments from stolen accounts and then transfer the cash back to the real attacker. Many phishers are swimming in...
