There
is a fresh scam in the market. Beware of emails citing that you’ve won a BMW
lottery and acquired a BMW 2 series M24oi in this holiday season. These scams
as per usual are after your personal data and credentials.
What seems to be like a whole new scamming campaign is
actually trying to lure users into believing that they have won a lottery and
as the prize they have won a BMW 2 series M24oi.
According to a reputed source the e-mails could have phrases
and sentences like, “Hurry claim the prize” or “Claim your car and check with
your winning code.” The contents of the e-mail are as follows:-
“Your e-mail has been
selected for a prize of a brand new 2018 BMW 2 Series M24oi xDrive and a cheque
of $1,500,000.00 USD from the international balloting programs held in USA but
the WINNING IS FOR EVERYBODY CONTACTED AS A WINNER IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. Contact
the claims agents with the code BMW:2541256004/25 and your Delivery Details
(full name, address of delivery and mobile number) to claim your prize.
Congratulations!!!!
This message has been
scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be
clean.”
The moment the receiver falls into the trap by sending the
attacker their information, the cyber-con behind the scam is quite likely to as
for more information including social security numbers and other sort of
confidential information.
Later, the harvested information would be used to operate an
identity theft in order to attain access to the receiver’s financial as well as
personal accounts.
The only way to save your own self from falling into the
entrapment of such scams is to delete the e-mails as soon as they are
received. Or you might end up paying heavily.