We’ve all seen the Microsoft Global Lottery spam in our inboxes over the past couple of years. The Google brand has been used by email lottery scammers as well. Now, it appears that the Toyota brand has made the cut.
In a nutshell, the scam works like this:
- Pick a recognizable brand
- Send spam to millions of people using that trusted brand name which says that the recipient has won an email lottery
- Request money from recipients to release their prize
- Repeat
Amazingly, enough people are duped by this old scam that we continue to see these messages arrive in our inboxes each day.
Here’s the latest one, using the Toyota brand (Geez, they could have at least personalized it rather than sending it to ‘undisclosed-recipients):
The most interesting fact that today, i see same article:).
Although I do not remember there may be a link to the source,
but probably not – but your site look solid.