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Source: IT Security - Posted by Eric Lubow
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If you’re in a certain income bracket, you might get an e-mail threatening your life. A new group of spammers, posing as professional hit-men, claim that recipients have been targeted for assassination and ask for up to $80,000 to drop the contract on their lives. Recipients are warned against contacting the police or FBI. Internet security firm Sophos said it had received a number of reports about the scheme and issued a statement today.
A group of professionals, including dentists and a car dealer, reportedly took the message seriously and did contact the authorities, according to the Times Online. “This is surely one of the sickest phishes yet seen - the intention of this email is quite clearly to frighten the recipient into coughing up a substantial amount of money or, at the very least, their bank account details,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.
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