New Email Scam to look out for
I received THIS email to my iPhone a few minutes ago:
While I FIGURED it was fake, it made me think for a moment and really check things out. It would suck to be sued for something like this - especially because there ARE law firms out there that do this type of scare tactic crap in order to extort money out of people.
The scammers email:
Esteemed Sir or Madam, We have gathered a decisive evidence of your involvement in the infringement of copyright protected by our company. This contact has been obtained from your Internet service provider tracing it to your infringing Rapidshare.com traffic. Please access the list of the files which you shared illegally by clicking the link below. It was composed by analyzing your Piratebay.org traffic. http://eximtradeagencies.com/eoztcgyebzrr.html We offer you a chance to not be engaged in the court procedure and a possible court trial by settling this case out of court. You have 21 days to contact us and come to a solution which will entail a much lesser financial burden for you. IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE WITHIN 28 DAYS UNFORTUNATELY WE WILL HAVE TO START THE LEGAL PROCEDURE AGAINST YOU. Sincerely, Boris Lott |
#2. They did not know my name, or even if i was male or female
#3. The link showing 'proof' was simply a re-direct to an article about crackdowns on MegaUpload
#4. The ROOT domain for that redirect link is some company in India that does who know's what
#5. This email came from a free email address, not one associated with a law firm.
At any rate, just a warning scammers are getting more creative - make sure you're careful about these types of things. I've been dealing with nigerian scammers for quite some time, but this one takes a VERY unique approach and capitalizes on peoples fear of being sued for MORE money, as opposed to capitalizing on their greed like many 419 scammers do (IE: You won the UK Lottery)
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