Here’s the latest phishing attempt that I think is worth sharing. Long gone are the days when photoshopping pictures was done only for online dating!
In this scheme, Dr. Ayesha Mustafa Azziz, from Libya, claims she has $6 million US stored in a bank account and wants you to help her keep the money safe for her children, What you are to do is take 30% of this money and keep the rest for my Kids in case I couldn’t make it.
Naturally, I wrote to the lady to offer my help, but there’s been no answer yet Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I’ve already received 17 requests this week to transfer millions into my account!
Any non-expert eye can see that the documents have been photoshopped: in some parts the font textures look very different. If you look carefully, you’ll also notice that the transaction dates are very old compared to the actual document date, which makes me believe the scammer used an old document but didn’t take the time to re-do the transactions dates.
While emails like this make it look easy, phishing protection is a must. This is a simple one, but there are lot of serious targeted attacks taking shape.
I’ve got a reply (obviously automated) because she’s answering questions I did not asked. Email is ending with ‘please reply with your identity copy and your bank details and address including contact numbers where the bank can contact you when my relative completes arrangement.’