Email Safety Blog

Today marks a unique day in which we receive an email variation we have never, ever seen before. We recently got an email from a man named Hoecker Moreb, a man that we obviously do not know.  The subject line was quick, simple, and down right creepy.  It read, “Your Wife Photos Attached”.  Clue one… improper English.

Immediately, we became suspicious and of this obvious piece of spam.  After clicking on the email we again found a similar quick, simple, and extremely creepy line.  The only text inside the body of the email read, “Your wife photos”.  The only other thing the email contained was a zip download.  And, there we go! Wow, who wants to be the first to guess what that zip folder is?  Can you say MALWARE!?!? And to think,  Hoecker thought he could trick us!

Now, kudos to the scammer for freaking us out so much that we immediately had to click on the email.  And, kudos to us for reconizing the potential dismise we would of faced if we downloaded the attachment.  Crash! As we mentioned before, scammers will try to take any angle to get you to download a virus, malware, or send back personal information.

Tags: computer, email scam, malware, new scam, wife photos