Fraud

This email claims that an entity named the European Debt Recovery Unit is “aware of your sad ordeal about your unpaid fund” and can help you receive the money previously promised to you. 

Sextortion scammers have lately been including user passwords in their scam emails as a way of making their false claim seem more plausible. And, in another variation, the scammers include part of the recipient’s phone number instead of the password.

This email claims that the sender has recorded a video of you “doing dirty things” while visiting an adult website. 

According to this email, you are eligible to receive a compensation payment because you were identified as a victim of a previous online scam attempt. 

A new and rather sinister twist on the old fake blackmail sextortion scam is panicking some recipients into sending their money to criminals.

According to this email, the sender installed software on an X-rated website that you visited and was able to make a video of you viewing the material on the site. 

According to this email, the sender has infected your computer with malware after you visited a porn website. Supposedly, the malware turned on your computer’s camera and captured your actions during your visit.

This email claims to be from none other than General Lori Robinson, commander of the U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). 

This message, which is distributed via email, claims that you have won £1,992,347 in the “Big Big British National Lotto”. Supposedly, your email address was chosen as a winner in a free ticket draw.

Here is another typical advance fee scam designed to trick you into giving your money and personal information to Internet criminals. The…