Beware of Identity Theft: People claiming to make you millionaire

A friend of mine received this Phishing mail from a woman claiming to be an employee at Reserve Bank of India, asking her to be an accomplice in distributing more than 5 crores INR among them of an unclaimed bank account. You can read the whole mail yourself,

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• Even though it is a spam mail, here's why quite a few people could fall for it:
• The link mentioned, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/find-whereabouts-of-unclaimed-deposit-holders-rbi-tells-banks/909041 actually redirects to an article 'Find whereabouts of unclaimed deposit holders: RBI tells banks' on Financial Express and another link, http://www.korat-info.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18%20&%20t=1496#p6452 too leads to an actual plane crash news, in which according to the mail, the unclaimed account holder has died with his family. But, there is still no specific proof though.

Then again, here's why it is a spam:

• The mail has been sent via http://www.ciudad.com.ar/ . It is a Spanish website which is also a free e-mail provider.

• The mail doesn't address by a specific name, instead it says, 'dear friend', which means it is generalized mail sent to many.

As I've suggested in my previous blogs as well, that in case you receive such a mail,

• Do not reply, as your response will be used for identity theft.

• Do mark it as spam so that you don't receive any further mails from the spammers.

• One more thing I'd strongly suggest is that don't add your e-mail id to random websites as once it gets public, you become the target of spammers.

The purpose of this Phishing mail is identity theft but there are also a few which would try to gain money from you as in the case of, Fake Hyundai Job Call Letter and Fake Microsoft Job Offer Letter.

Also, take a look at a similar mail, Fake 'Abba Queens Hotel' Job Offer Mail and Fake Audi Promo Program.

And, if you're on Twitter, you might want to read this, Don't Fall For Phishing On Twitter.