An unusually-clever scam email.
Mar. 11th, 2014 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It’s such an unpleasantly well-crafted scam. A third of the American East Coast probably knows someone in Florida who might be expected to turn up dead; Florida’s got a lot of older folks and a very healthy crime industry. The victims jump to some conclusion as to who died, click on the link in a panic in hopes of confirming the omitted name, and get infected with whatever malware the site’s got.
Straight-up villainy. To add to the plausibility, they even used the name and address of a real funeral home, which has been getting panicked calls.
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Date: 2014-03-12 02:38 am (UTC)