Thursday, September 13, 2007

Email Extortion Alert

Several Florida residents have been targeted by an assassin email scam. Florida police say the scam emails claim they are from an assassin hired to kill the recipient. Officials say the emails are written with poor grammar and misspellings. The email asks the recipient for money so the assassin won't kill them.

There are numerous services on the Web which allow users to disguise the origins of messages. It takes just seconds, for example, to spoof a message purporting to come from your email address!!