Beware fake international police organizations…
Practitioners of ur-phish, the 419 scam, have set up a doctored mirror of Interpol’s website, as a ruse to ease victims’ worries over the legality of handing their bank details over to strangers offering vast sums of cash in return.
Read more at
The Register
:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/31/scammers_create_interpol_mirror
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Interpol has issued a terse warning about the scam here:
http://www.interpol.org/Public/News/2006/news20060727.asp
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Posted on 02 August 2006 by
Virus Bulletin
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