Spammers Get Serious- Threaten Assassination

I’m not too sure who would fall for this, but people still fall for those Nigerian Email scams, and even murder their husbands over it. So as a warning to all, take note of this new spammer’s attempt to siphon cash out of you- a threat from an assassin.

From Sophos here:

The emails claim that the recipient has been stalked by a hired assassin for 10 days, but that the hitman is prepared to drop the contract if he is paid a total of $80,000. Upon receiving an initial advance payment of $20,000 the hitman claims that he will produce taped evidence of the contract to kill the reader of the email.

Part of the email, which start with a cheery greeting of “Good day” and can have a subject line of “Read this to be safe and a new life in this new year”, reads:

Do not contact the police or F.B.I. or try to send a copy of this to them, because if you do i will know, and might be pushed to do what i have being paid to do, beside, this is the first time I turned out to be a betrayer in my job.

According to Sophos experts, once a victim has been drawn into the scam, requests can be made from the fraudster for private information which may lead to requests for money, stolen identities, and financial theft.

You can read the entire poorly punctuated threatening spam at Sophos site. And some free advice to phishers, hackers, spammers and scammers: No one will take you seriously until you learn how to spell and use proper punctuation. And for God’s sake, quit using free translation software; it makes you sound like Tarzan.

Heh. Longrider is reporting that many people are already falling for this. Including a Dentist and a Car Salesman. Well, I’m sure they believe that someone would want them dead.