People are different. They have different characters and different views of life.
These behaviors and differences are carried over the Internet. There are people who are just having fun (playing games, reading gossip pages etc), people who are looking information or working and there are people who try to make profit in illegal way.
For example they are "earning" money through some fraud schemes: credit card fraud, "lotteries", debt elimination, identity thefts and etc..
There are many possibilities how one can cheat via email, for example lottery scam letters. These are sent thousands every day, hoping that somebody will believe it and do what ever letter is telling to do.
Actually I was thinking that there cant be so silly people who would just one day receive the letter announcing the win of 10000$ or some other amount and believe they have actually won it, even if they never purchased any lottery tickets ?
Although some letters may claim that winner were selected through visiting some webpage, but still.
I know one person who got this kind of lottery letter many years ago, where "they" announced her about the winning. I don't remember exact amount, but she was asked to send approximately 3000 eek for taxes and bank fees. And she did!
First she didn't tell about it to anybody, but when she realized she will never get this money back, it just came out..
Scam:
1. Lottery scam letters are posted - Something like: Congratulation!
This message is from the World leading Email Lottery Organisation. Results have been released for 2008 and your email address is among ten selected lucky winners of one million each. etc.. - letters are usually really official form, then they are more believable.
2. People receive these letters
3. Some people fall for it, some delete/ignore it.
4. Fallen people send their personal data or money or ...
5. They find out that it was a scam
6. Maybe! they turn somebody for help.
back to point 1.
My first thoughts would be what kind of pages I visited, where they got my email, if amounts are big, then this kind of information is never discussed via email?
If I win something why I have to pay for it, can't they just subtract the tax amount from the sum I won and etc..
And about this scam page.. I think that it is good from one side - people can see and read what kind of scams there have been and they would never fall for it? In the other hand some frauds who are beginners can have "great" thoughts from there.
These behaviors and differences are carried over the Internet. There are people who are just having fun (playing games, reading gossip pages etc), people who are looking information or working and there are people who try to make profit in illegal way.
For example they are "earning" money through some fraud schemes: credit card fraud, "lotteries", debt elimination, identity thefts and etc..
There are many possibilities how one can cheat via email, for example lottery scam letters. These are sent thousands every day, hoping that somebody will believe it and do what ever letter is telling to do.
Actually I was thinking that there cant be so silly people who would just one day receive the letter announcing the win of 10000$ or some other amount and believe they have actually won it, even if they never purchased any lottery tickets ?
Although some letters may claim that winner were selected through visiting some webpage, but still.
I know one person who got this kind of lottery letter many years ago, where "they" announced her about the winning. I don't remember exact amount, but she was asked to send approximately 3000 eek for taxes and bank fees. And she did!
First she didn't tell about it to anybody, but when she realized she will never get this money back, it just came out..
Scam:
1. Lottery scam letters are posted - Something like: Congratulation!
This message is from the World leading Email Lottery Organisation. Results have been released for 2008 and your email address is among ten selected lucky winners of one million each. etc.. - letters are usually really official form, then they are more believable.
2. People receive these letters
3. Some people fall for it, some delete/ignore it.
4. Fallen people send their personal data or money or ...
5. They find out that it was a scam
6. Maybe! they turn somebody for help.
back to point 1.
My first thoughts would be what kind of pages I visited, where they got my email, if amounts are big, then this kind of information is never discussed via email?
If I win something why I have to pay for it, can't they just subtract the tax amount from the sum I won and etc..
And about this scam page.. I think that it is good from one side - people can see and read what kind of scams there have been and they would never fall for it? In the other hand some frauds who are beginners can have "great" thoughts from there.
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