lottery scam | DataProtectionCenter.com

Names of Real Lottery Winners Leveraged by Scammers

07

Feb

2014

Leveraging the names of real lottery winners is a tactic often used by fraudsters for online lottery scams. Security experts say theyre seeing a lot of 419 scam emails that use the names of various people who have won the lottery to make the bogus story more convincing. Kaspersky experts have spotted lottery scam emails […]

Category Security Written by Softpedia 0 Comments

Lottery Scam: Jackpot Company Xmas Promotion 2013

16

Dec

2013

Christmas is that time of year when scammers and cybercriminals step it into high gear when it comes to spam campaigns. Symantec provides several examples of emails you should be on the lookout for these days. One of them is a lottery scam email which informs recipients that theyve won a large amount of money […]

Category Security Written by Softpedia 0 Comments

Survey Spam Also Bank on 2012 Olympics Fever

25

Jul

2012

It’s no surprise to see that criminals are banking on a highly anticipated sporting event such as the 2012 Olympic Games, which will be held in London, England. And as early as 2010, Olympic-themed spam has been out there. There’s a number of different types, too-from the classic lottery scam mails, to fake tickets and […]

Category General Written by GFI Labs blog 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘lottery scam’

Names of Real Lottery Winners Leveraged by Scammers

Lottery Scam: Jackpot Company Xmas Promotion 2013

Survey Spam Also Bank on 2012 Olympics Fever

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us