Phishers en andere online oplichters proberen op allerei manieren geld en vertrouwelijke gegevens van nietsvermoedende internetgebruikers los te peuteren. Aangezien phishing scams de laatste tijd regelmatig in het nieuws zijn en er ook vanuit allerlei organisaties voor gewaarschuwd wordt, hebben de phishers nu zelf ook maar besloten om geadresseerden te waarschuwen. Mogelijk dat dit het bericht geloofwaardiger doet overkomen. Volgens de oplichter uit de e-mail die we net ontvingen komen phishing scams in Nederland regelmatig voor, iets wat de e-mail bewijst. Dit is wat mevrouw "Mary Jones" ons had te vertellen:

Dear Friend,

I know you will definitely take this as a deceptive email, becauseof the swindle news we hear everyday and now it happens am from Netherlands where it seems to happen more often.Let me first of all inform you, i got your e.mail address from a mail directory and decided to mail you for a permission to go ahead.

I am Mrs mary jones from Netherlands.I am married to harry jones who worked with Chevron/Texaco in Nigeria for twenty years before he died in the year 2000.We were married for fifteen years without a child,He died during one of the riots in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.He was held hostage and slain to death by protesting youths of the region .

Since his death I decided not to re-marry.When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 20.6 million dollars (Twenty million six hundred thousand United State Dollars)with a bank in the Europe.

Presently this money is still with the bank and the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or rather issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive it on my behalf if I can not come over.

I am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs, I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have
only a few months to live.

I want a person that is trustworthy that will use 50% of this money to fund churches,orphanages and widows and invest the remaining 50% in any business of your choice which will be profitable to you.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the bank.I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

I await your urgent reply.

Regards,

Mrs mary jones

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