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Beware, another honey trap is doing the rounds trying to snare people. Dancho Danchev was the one to report on it first. This is something you could forward to all your employees as a good example of social engineering they should not fall for.
Russian online dating scammers are currently spamvertising a fraudulent campaign attempting to socially engineer users into interacting with a bogus online dating service. What we have here is a recent example of one of the most prolific online scams, namely, Russian dating scams. The scam orbits around on the notion that lonely Internet users will engage in emotional and financial transactions with complete strangers based on their profiles and associated photos promising love, marriage, or friendship. Webroot has the whole story and pictures.
[/caption]Beware, another honey trap is doing the rounds trying to snare people. Dancho Danchev was the one to report on it first. This is something you could forward to all your employees as a good example of social engineering they should not fall for.
Russian online dating scammers are currently spamvertising a fraudulent campaign attempting to socially engineer users into interacting with a bogus online dating service. What we have here is a recent example of one of the most prolific online scams, namely, Russian dating scams. The scam orbits around on the notion that lonely Internet users will engage in emotional and financial transactions with complete strangers based on their profiles and associated photos promising love, marriage, or friendship. Webroot has the whole story and pictures.
