Spam & Phishing

Nigerian Scam ? No, COVID-19 scam, from China

I sometimes can’t stop to ask myself if the scammers are actually human beings with feelings of loss and tragedy and if they have the same concerns as the normal citizens. I guess they are not, because otherwise you can’t explain this:   Hello friend, I intend to give out some portion of my wealth […]

Spam & Phishing

Nigerian scams are modernizing

I sometimes laugh of these scammers, but sometimes I am quit amazed of their capability to adapt to the spam filters. My Google account caught this spam: In text, this is : Good Day, I am Mr. Ming Yang,Director of operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch,Hong Kong.I am here-by seeking your […]

General

Nigerian scam with MS Word Document attached

There is a new type of Nigerian scam (aka 419 scam) where the body of the email looks like the one in the screen shot below and the real content is in the attached MS Word document. Here is the content of the Word document: Why this ? Because it is very hard to detect […]