What you are going to do with $1 or $2 ? May be you will buy a bubble gum, candy or donate it in the temple, isn’t it? But this is the enough money for a hacker/spammer to create a fake email and send it to millions of email ids around the world and may be one will drop in your inbox , then how you will identify it as a scam email?
You may also receive emails about unusual advertisement and promotion of products and services even if you have not subscribed to their newsletters , so how do they get your email ids? It is hard to believe anyone , as some greedy website owners sell their customers’ email database for a huge sum of money and the spammers and advertisers take advantages of this email marketing .
You may also receive emails about unusual advertisement and promotion of products and services even if you have not subscribed to their newsletters , so how do they get your email ids? It is hard to believe anyone , as some greedy website owners sell their customers’ email database for a huge sum of money and the spammers and advertisers take advantages of this email marketing .
Here are some sample fake/scam email that you may have or you may receive in your inbox.
LOTTERY SCAMS
You may receive bulk email with subject “YOU WON A GRAND LOTTERY PRIZE” . They will inform you that “You have won a grand cash prizes of 250,000,000 Pounds for British Lottery Associations, and they need your personal details such as email id, bank account numbers, phone no address etc. so the association can contact you” first they will greed you by telling that huge sum of money , then they will ask you to pay some service charges, if you pay they will claim money again pretending with different charges . So ignore such emails and mark it as spam as it will help the email server to protect other users from such fake emails.
You may receive bulk email with subject “YOU WON A GRAND LOTTERY PRIZE” . They will inform you that “You have won a grand cash prizes of 250,000,000 Pounds for British Lottery Associations, and they need your personal details such as email id, bank account numbers, phone no address etc. so the association can contact you” first they will greed you by telling that huge sum of money , then they will ask you to pay some service charges, if you pay they will claim money again pretending with different charges . So ignore such emails and mark it as spam as it will help the email server to protect other users from such fake emails.
REFUGEE SCAMS
You may receive bulk emails from a girl , she claims that her parents has died at civil war in some country and she is residing at a refugee camp as she have no home. First she will contact with such emotional emails, if you give response to her emails she will act like a pen pal , she will share her self created emotional story with you as well as her father has left some huge amount of money in his bank account and that can only be withdrawn with a foreign partner , then she will ask your details such as personal email id, bank account number, address etc. She is not she, it’s the spammers who try to fool people to steal money.
You may receive bulk emails from a girl , she claims that her parents has died at civil war in some country and she is residing at a refugee camp as she have no home. First she will contact with such emotional emails, if you give response to her emails she will act like a pen pal , she will share her self created emotional story with you as well as her father has left some huge amount of money in his bank account and that can only be withdrawn with a foreign partner , then she will ask your details such as personal email id, bank account number, address etc. She is not she, it’s the spammers who try to fool people to steal money.
FOREIGN TRANSFER SCAM
You may receive a spam email the person will claim that he/she is from Reserve Bank/ Central Bank of the nation, and you are lucky one to be chosen as foreign exchange beneficiary of 500,000 pounds for outstanding incurred by foreign government and as a rule of your central bank you have to pay about 19,000/ as handling and service fees to proceed the official transactions . If you pay the fees then they will claim some different fees as the Lottery scams and by the time its too late.
FAKE PAYMENT GATEWAY
Hackers and spammers are always trying new ideas to take down users and their information. As online education and online purchase are being more popular among people, so hackers found this a fair way to attract users, they send bulk email claiming that it’s a invitation from a reputed foreign university for a higher degree or they send advertisement of personal medecines like pills for enlargement of organs , loose weight and fat etc. When a user is attracted toward this and he is willing to pay, then he got redirect to the spoofed payment gateway and if they enter their credit card number, cvv number, email id, billing address etc, Oh man! You are in trap!
Hackers and spammers are always trying new ideas to take down users and their information. As online education and online purchase are being more popular among people, so hackers found this a fair way to attract users, they send bulk email claiming that it’s a invitation from a reputed foreign university for a higher degree or they send advertisement of personal medecines like pills for enlargement of organs , loose weight and fat etc. When a user is attracted toward this and he is willing to pay, then he got redirect to the spoofed payment gateway and if they enter their credit card number, cvv number, email id, billing address etc, Oh man! You are in trap!
We can identify such scam email by various things , but now a days most of the email servers has their own email detection system by which such emails directly goes to your spam folder, but if still it is in your inbox then you can detect by the followings:
Incorrect Spellings:
Spammers usually do mistakes while typing , but they try their most of the efforts to express originality and take down users but still their quality of language used will be very poor.
Plain Text
Most of the scam and phished emails are poorly written in plain text with weird unusual logos and commonly used fonts. But if you receive emails from legitimate company you can see its written on HTML, images and high end font which looks like almost a banner.
Most of the scam and phished emails are poorly written in plain text with weird unusual logos and commonly used fonts. But if you receive emails from legitimate company you can see its written on HTML, images and high end font which looks like almost a banner.
Sender’s email id:
Hackers/spammers usually use free based email service or unusual email server to attempt such things. You can detect the email id in a weird form such as aghs-327@axnbe@com .
Hackers/spammers usually use free based email service or unusual email server to attempt such things. You can detect the email id in a weird form such as aghs-327@axnbe@com .
Website URL & Security:
Most of the spoofed webpages has weird url which is weird to read as well as to stare at them. They claims that their website is ssl secured, geo trust, certified by MasterCard/visa but actually it’s the only copied logo , if you hover your mouse and click on those logo it will show nothing, but a legitimate website and payment gateway is SSL secured which you can see it a secured logo with green colour at the address bar of your browser. If you click on the logo of visa/MasterCard , geo trust it will open a new popup secured window and display the website’s licence status.
Most of the spoofed webpages has weird url which is weird to read as well as to stare at them. They claims that their website is ssl secured, geo trust, certified by MasterCard/visa but actually it’s the only copied logo , if you hover your mouse and click on those logo it will show nothing, but a legitimate website and payment gateway is SSL secured which you can see it a secured logo with green colour at the address bar of your browser. If you click on the logo of visa/MasterCard , geo trust it will open a new popup secured window and display the website’s licence status.
USE YOUR COMMON SENSE
This is going to be the rude paragraph from my side , Ok if you don’t understand all of the above then use your common sense. If you have to pick a lottery then go to the local lottery agency and pick any one and test your fortune. Why those gain company will give you such huge amount of money and that is in pounds ? if you have to purchase medicine online for your extremely personal use then Google it you will get a lots of legit website that have some legit review about those medicines. If you want to study abroad then first search details about the university online, no university is will to charge you to view their details and course structure in a first go. And Your central bank much more work to do than informing you individually about the foreign beneficiary .
