Results for '419 email'

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World Cup 2014 Cash Prize & Tickets Email is a 419 Scam

April 21, 2014 - From the spam traps: a World Cup 2014 419 missive, with a wonderfully enlightening subject line: “gkxzhlfgjs‏”. It reads: Dear Email...

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News | Scams

Watch out, this LastPass email with “Important information about your account” is a phish

September 14, 2023 - The consequences of last year’s LastPass breach continue to be felt, with the latest insult to users coming in the form...

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News | Threat Intelligence

Nigerian Tesla: 419 scammer gone malware distributor unmasked

May 5, 2022 - Agent Tesla is a well-known data stealer written in .NET that has been active since 2014 and is perhaps one of...

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News | Scams

“URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL!!!” 419 scammer wants your help to move someone’s inheritance

April 27, 2022 - We’ve received several emails over the last couple of days which follow the classic 419 mail scam method. Titled “URGENT BUSINESS...

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News | Privacy

ProtonMail hands user’s IP address and device info to police, showing the limits of private email

September 7, 2021 - They say there’s two sides to every story. Depending on your point of view, you may have heard a recent story...

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Five easy ways to recognize and dispose of malicious emails

June 19, 2018 - I suppose we all get our share of spam. Some more than others. But how do we differentiate between simple commercial...

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“Celebrating Stephen Hawking” with a 419 scam

March 23, 2018 - The recently departed Stephen Hawking is apparently back from the dead, now a target for scammers wanting to extract some quick...

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Of princes and perpetrators: Beware of getting ensnared in 419 scams

January 10, 2018 - We’ve mentioned before that 419 scams don’t always originate from Nigeria. It’s a very simple and popular scam that can be...

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419 scammer offers USD $60 million—and a free child

October 18, 2017 - Scammers often come crawling out of the woodwork in all sorts of places you wouldn’t necessarily expect. This is to their...

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Fake DHS email – “Give us $350 in the next 24 hours”

September 8, 2017 - Who likes threats? Nobody, as it turns out. That hasn’t stopped scammers from jumping on the menacing email train – next...

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