17
Jan
2007
FBI Warns of Contract Killer Scam Spam
Well this is odd!
It seems scammers have come up with a new method of extracting large amounts of money from the innocent.
Instead of the death of a wealthy Nigerian bank owner resulting in massive $$$$ gain for you (etc) it's an email from an assassin who has been hired to kill you - unless you can pay him $80,000 to drop the contract!
Here is an example of the spam email: (borrowed from sophos.com)
So if you're threatened in the near future… it's most probably a scam 
Well this is odd!
It seems scammers have come up with a new method of extracting large amounts of money from the innocent.
Instead of the death of a wealthy Nigerian bank owner resulting in massive $$$$ gain for you (etc) it's an email from an assassin who has been hired to kill you - unless you can pay him $80,000 to drop the contract!
Here is an example of the spam email: (borrowed from sophos.com)
So if you're threatened in the near future… it's most probably a scam
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
MBL Community: FBI Warns Of Contract Killer Scam Spam
Today's Featured post come's from Zigre. In amongst the 500 spam emails Zigre gets per day, Zigre has spotted a new type of scam that attempts to extract money from poor individuals in a new, very scary way:
Instead of the death of a wea…