FBI has revealed three new kinds of Internet - swindle
10 August 2007FBI has revealed three new schemes of Internet - scam with symbolics of the American Army and FBI.
FBI’s press-service informs, the Bureau had to issue the warning after the sharply grown amount of complaints from people suffered from actions of the swindlers.
According to FBI, in one case swindlers exploit such human weak points as curiosity. People receive e-mails with the link to an electronic card, allegedly, to them.
The user goes to link with a card from unknown for him addressee. Actually through this link computer is loaded with some harmful programs.
In other scheme of swindle malefactors offer participation in a lottery or inform on the inheritance. Such letters are made out in FBI’s firm style: with a photo of Director Robert Muller, picture of the Bureau’s seal and ostensibly on the state FBI’s letterhead.
In the third case swindlers simply extort money on a specious pretext. The letter says that its sender serves in Army and is authorized by the colleagues in hot spots to collect donations. This scheme is also directed on confidential data accessing. FBI warns that such messages should be deleted immediately.
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