Fraud per e-mail, facsimile and telephone grows even larger.

The so-called ‘Nigerian letters’ with promises of easy millions just for the use of your personal and banking details have been around for years and are widely known as pure fraud, yet they still find victims. The same goes for offers of an expensive liquid said to change paper into dollar bills. People have been arrested in Europe for trying to perpetrate this fraud.

These have been followed by e-mails, facsimiles or telephone calls informing the recipient that they have won a cash prize or foreign holiday for which they must telephone a foreign number. What the senders of these messages do not tell is how much this telephone call will cost and that they will collect a large part of the payment. Or they ask for payment of an amount to cover administration or tax on the prize. So, no prize and money lost.

You may also receive an e-mail supposedly from your bank or credit card company which requests your personal and/or banking details, perhaps even your pin number, so that they can be checked in order to prevent fraud. Nothing could be further from the truth! Do not answer. No bank or credit card company would approach you in this way.

There are also e-mail auctions or companies that make use of misleading names similar to well-known firms who will accept your bid or purchase against prepayment. Again, fraud, money lost.

And finally do not forget the free offers of a sexual nature and other spams with attachments. Before you know it you have ‘spyware’ or a virus in your computer system. Never open an attachment from an unknown sender.

| Prevention Guide | Volume 7 | No: 1 | article 5 |

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