Here is yet another example of a scam I hear often about. This is a screen shot of what I saw in my email program:
At first glance a friendly, nicely formatted and really "professional" looking email.
Three things caught my attention before I would have clicked on "Listen";
- Red highlight: The sender address seems to come from "@pushworth.com". Big discrepancy to the supposes (company?) name "Whats App".
In my mind the warning lights went on.
- Purple highlight: The sender disguised very well the actual route the email had taken. That shows technical know how and (criminal?) intent.
By now the warning bells where ringing loud.
- Blue highlight: When I rested the mouse cursor on the pretty "Listen" button the link behind this button translated to "casinotipps.net". Casino tips and forwarding voice mails via email? Oh Please, don't think I am that dumb.
Now I was already chuckling; just another scam email.
But I know from experience that there are simple souls out there who did click on "Listen"; although the mail they had gotten likely looked different.
Actually I should be thanking the creator of this scam because he keeps me in the business of cleaning up virus infected computers.
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