Email fraud is a deliberate fraud made for personal gain or to damage other individuals via email. Almost as soon as email is widely used, it starts to be used as a tool to deceive people. Email fraud can take the form of "game con" or fraud . Confidence deceptions tend to exploit the greed and dishonesty attached to the victim. The prospect of 'haggling' or 'wasted' can be very tempting. Email fraud, like other 'bunco schemes' typically targets naïve people who put their trust in rich quick schemes like 'too good to be true' investments or offer to sell popular items at 'very cheap' prices. Many people lose their savings due to fraud.
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Spoofing
Emails sent from someone who pretends to be someone else are known as spoofing. Spoofing can occur in several ways. What is common to all of them is that the actual sender's name and the origin of the message are hidden or obscured from the recipient. Many, if not most, examples of email fraud do use at least minimal spoofing, as most fraud is clearly a criminal act. Criminals usually try to avoid easy traceability.
Phishing for data
Some spoof messages claim to come from an existing company, maybe one of the targeted victims already has a business relationship. The 'feeds' in this example may appear as messages from 'fraud departments', for example, victim banks, which require customers to: "confirm their information"; "log into their account"; "create new password", or similar request. If 'fish' takes 'bait', they are 'addicted' - their account information is now in the hands of fraudsters, to do as they see fit.
Bogus offers
Email requests to buy goods or services can be an example of a fraud trial. Fraudulent offers usually feature popular goods or services, at very cheap prices.
Goods can be offered before their actual availability. For example, the latest video games may be offered before release, but at the same price as normal sales. In this case, the "greed factor" is the desire to get something that no one else has, and before anyone else can get it, rather than reduce the price. Of course, the item was never delivered, because it was not a valid offer in the first place.
Such an offer may even be nothing more than a phishing attempt to obtain the victim's credit card information, with the intent of using information to fraudulently obtain goods or services, paid for by unfortunate victims, who may not know that they are cheated until their credit card has been "used".
Request help
The "request for help" type of email fraud picks up this form: emails sent for help in some way. However, prizes are included for this assistance, which acts as a "hook". The prize may be a large sum of money, property, or value artifact.
This type of fraud has existed since at least the Renaissance, known as the "Spanish Prisoner" or "Turkish Prisoner" scam. In its original form, this scheme has a con artist who corresponds to a rich man imprisoned under a false identity, and relies on a trusting artist to raise money to secure his release. The deceiver told the "sign" (victim) that he was "allowed" to provide money, where he should expect a generous reward when the prisoner returned. The belief artist claims to have chosen the victim for their reputation for honesty.
Another form of false aid request is represented by romantic fraud. In this form, fraudsters (male or female pretenders) build online relationships, and after a while they ask money from victims. They claim the money is necessary due to the fact that they have lost their money (or their goods stolen), they have been beaten or harmed and they have to get out of the country to fly to the victim country.
This confidence trick is similar to a face-to-face con's, known as the "Stranger with a Good Face," which is the possible origin of at least the vaudevillian routine title known by the same name, as "Niagara Falls," or as "Slowly I change... "
The modern email version of this scam, known as "Nigerian scam", "All-Stars Nigeria," etc., as it is usually based in Nigeria, is a cost advance fraud. Lottery fraud is a contemporary touch to this scam.
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Avoid email scams
Due to the widespread use of web bugs in emails, simply by opening an email that can alert the sender that the email delivery destination address is a valid address. This can also happen when an email is 'reported' as spam, in some cases: if the email is forwarded for review, and opened, the sender will be notified in the same way as if the intended party opens it.
Email scams can be avoided by:
- Keep someone's email address as confidential as possible.
- Using spam filters.
- Note some spelling mistakes in the "lookup" email body.
- Ignoring unwanted email of all types and removing them.
- Not clicking links.
- Ignoring bids from unknown sources. Email content is not a formal or binding agreement.
Many frauds are not reported to the authorities, because of feelings of shame, guilt, or shame.
See also
- 419eater.com
- Fraud charges upfront
- Confusion trick
- Fraud
- Fast-loading schema
- Internet fraud
- List of email scams
- Lottery draw
- Mail blocking
- Spamming
- Web bug
References
External links
- Email Frauds Email
- Email Scam Reports
- Why Phishing Attacks Still Work
- Big 5 E-Mail Fraud Since Early Digital Age
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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