Emails coming from legitimate users, known to the victim, have been spotted to deliver messages asking for money that would get the alleged friend out of some sort of trouble. Cybercriminals started to hijack email accounts and use them to perpetrate this type of scam. In one of the messages seen by Christopher Boyd from Malwarebytes, the sender pretended to be in a bit of a jam in a foreign country and required some money in order to settle hotel bills and catch a flight home. Because the …
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