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

Posted By: Sorin Mustaca March 24, 2020

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 as a free-will Financial donation to you for the ongoing COVID-19 that was cause by China because am a good citizen of china. Respond to partake.
Regards
Wang Jianlin
CEO: Wanda Group

And they even write the name of the virus wrong in the subject : CONVID instead of COVID

The email contains also some tracking pixel in the HTML content, pointing to tracking.net.

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Sorin Mustaca

Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since year 2000 in the IT Security industry and worked between 2003-2014 for Avira as Product Manager for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Today he is an independent IT Security Consultant focusing on Cybersecurity, secure software development and security for IoT and Automotive. He is also running his personal blog Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity and is the author of the free eBook Improve your security .