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 that leverage the names of Adrian and Gillian Bayford, who won the lottery in August 2012, Gareth and Catherine Bull, who won in January 2012, and Tom Crist…
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