Spammers using news stories to increase credibility
In an interesting twist, I got a variant of the Nigerian Oil Scam today that uses BBC news stories to lend credibility to their story.
At first I thought that the links in the e-mail might be fakes like those used in phishing scams, but they appear to be genuine.
One might wonder what these folks could accomplish if they turned all this time and creative energy to more socially productive pursuits…
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