I receive many spam emails. There are many types of spam e-mails:
I will post here about phishing e-mails. Most e-mails asks about help regarding transferring money and offers me a part of the total money. Some are also about winning a big lottery. These types of e-mails asks the receiver's full name, residential address, gender, phone number, e-mail address and sometimes photo and some other personal details too.
If a user responds to these type of e-mail, it may end in loosing money. These emails are totally fake and it is actually a trap to take away money from us. This blog is about the same phishing, money-trap e-mails.
I will highlight some important parts of the received e-mail as following:
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- Phishing, obtain personal details for misuse
This include the following techniques:- Regarding money transfer
- Lottery winning
- Product advertisement
- Website advertisement to increase website traffic, and ultimately to gain ad-click revenue
- Spread malicious links or virus program
I will post here about phishing e-mails. Most e-mails asks about help regarding transferring money and offers me a part of the total money. Some are also about winning a big lottery. These types of e-mails asks the receiver's full name, residential address, gender, phone number, e-mail address and sometimes photo and some other personal details too.
If a user responds to these type of e-mail, it may end in loosing money. These emails are totally fake and it is actually a trap to take away money from us. This blog is about the same phishing, money-trap e-mails.
I will highlight some important parts of the received e-mail as following:
From: user @ domain.tld
Reply-To: user @ domain.tld
Subject: subject of the e-mail
e-mail body. the subject and other important text in the message's body
my notes/observation regarding the e-mail
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