“I am in trouble, please, send me money,” hackers swindle people trouble – “I have been robbed at the airport in London, please, send me 1,450 pounds to get back home!,” reads an e-mail which was sent to over 400 friends of the chair of the Center of NGOs in the town of Razgrad Georgi Milkov. Milkov’s friends received e-mails from gmilkoff@yahoo.com and the exact address in the UK where the money should have been sent.

Hundreds of Milkov’s friends called him to see if he was fine. Only then they realized they had been victims of a new fraud in Bulgaria.

In order to cheat people, hackers get into e-mail boxes. Thus, while you are away from the computer, sleeping or travelling somewhere, e-mails could be sent directly from your e-mail box demanding money or making deals.

Comsure comment -….the morale of this story is – check your IT security

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