Oregon AG Cautions of Fraudulent E-mail Purporting to be from her Office

Just as Attorney General of Oregon was examining possible consumer scams within the state, she lately cautioned people of Oregon about one fake e-mail that was doing the rounds while posing as her office's communication, published oregonlive.com dated April 30, 2014.

Addressing recipients of the formal appearing e-mail, the message asserted that they were being negligent of one payday load, so should submit certain payment for averting lawful action. The e-mail directed users that they should follow one particular web-link else view an attachment to get additional details, alternatively answer the e-mail.

To look authentic, the e-mail cites the AG's name i.e. Ellen F. Rosenblum; contains the seal of Oregon State's Department of Justice (DoJ); mentions the consumer protection acts of federal and state; as well as includes the original links of Oregon DoJ. In reality, all the references are false.

Kristina Edmunson, Spokeswoman for AG, while remarking about the above fraud, stated that consumers during the end-week of April, 2014 started sending to the AG's office the e-mails they received verifying whether the requests were genuine. Week.com published this, April 30, 2014.

Edmunson stated there was no clarity about the number of people who potentially got ensnared with the scam.

AG Rosenblum explained to the residents that neither she nor Oregon's DoJ would dispatch them any e-mail of the sort. They would only send electronic mails that informed regarding frauds else other issues affecting residents, while those e-mails could be received solely from her website. She wouldn't also request anyone to pay money for averting any lawful action, she concluded. Portlandtribune.com reported this, April 30, 2014.

The AG's office elaborated that anyone getting the e-mail mustn't open it nor answer or click the web-links inside it for clicking might plant malware onto his PC. The malware could result in the crash down of the device as also be utilized for stalking as well as controlling the user's online operations, filch his private data, dispatch spam as well as commit fraud.

If however, anybody got victimized with the scam, he must visit www.oregonconsumer.gov to inform Oregon's DoJ otherwise dial 1-877-877-9392 for the same purpose.

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