Beware The New E-mail Frauds

Wealthy Nigerian businessmen and lonely Kenyan women flush with funds, soliciting your bank account details over an email, to transfer millions of dollars are passé. As Indians migrate to the internet en masse, so are the not-so-friendly neighbourhood scamsters. These fraudsters now land up in your inbox as advocates, police officials and friends through emails personally addressed to you and laced with links to malicious software that can steal your personal information including those related to credit cards and bank accounts.

The rise in email scams is directly proportional to the increase in internet penetration in the country, especially with the number of first-time internet users going up each day.A recent Cisco study found that India is the world’s largest source of internet spam, followed by the United States, South Korea and China. With over 130 million users, India’s internet population is one of the fastest growing in the world. Most of these scam emails are targeted at average, technically less sophisticated email users.  Read more of this post