| Re: Apartment Deposit Scam Warning
I got an email the other day from a Nigerian who wants to give me $25,000,000. All I have to do is give them all my details...
I wonder whether that's a scam???
In these days of the internet people seem to lose their common sense.. If you're moving to a new country, take your common sense with you. You may not be able to see a flat before you move into it, but that doesn't mean that you should stop thinking.. If you can't see a flat before you move in, do at least have the common sense to do some research on the "escrow" service you're being asked to use, a quick Google for "Fraud" and "Moneybookers" for example..
If it looks or sounds fishy, tell them that you're uncomfortable using that service.. After all, they will know where to find you, in the flat you're moving to, but if you even get close to handing over money, they can disappear in an instant.. It doesn't take much to use a botnet computer as a proxy to send out your fraudulent stuff.. Picking up the IP is probably useless, it'll probably lead back to a computer infected with a rootkit or a virus or something.
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