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Fraudsters Driving BMW To Deceive People

Sophos, an IT security company, has cautioned web users of a newfangled sequence of extensive netmail operations that shams that the receiver has acquired a large cash award and a brand new BMW, in an endeavor to thieve personal data and cash.

The spams assert that receivers have swept the BMW lottery and are eligible for 950,000 EUR and a spanking BMW 5 Series automobile. It notifies receivers to reach the claims division and gives a phony company address, net mail address and phone number, to compound the genuineness of the mail.

Sophos investigators consider the emails to be another version of the vast Nigerian 419 frauds that duped innocuous end users into thinking that huge sum of cash will be deposited into their accounts in bank.

The fraud is in fact premeditated to thieve bank account details or claim a 'handling charge' for the cash movement.

According to Sophos, this isn't the first instance a leading automaker has been exploited through an email fraud. In 2006, messages claiming to have originated from a Volkswagen lottery were emailed to global cybernauts.

"Not many persons would decline a free BMW, or a tidy sum of money, which is exactly why such lottery frauds are thriving prolifically," stated Carole Theriault, Sophos' senior security advisor.

"There's not much BMW can do to stop its name being misused in this way, and netmail users from rising to the bait and passing on their confidential information to scammers. The lone method to prevent the spreading of these emails is for end users to stop replying."

Lottery frauds are one of the most popular kinds of fake messages presently arriving at inboxes. Watch out for spam that communicates you that you have acquired a huge amount of cash in a worldwide lottery. This is a usual online fraud without any lottery or reward. Those who open discussion with the defrauders by responding to the lottery spams are ultimately demanded advanced charges to encompass costs connected with transfer of the alleged "prize money ". They are likely to fall prey to identity thieving also.

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