14 DAY TRIAL // An email is roaming the web, announcing the participants of a fabulous winning that makes them millionaires overnight, but instead of dollars, the victims get a lot of malware, lies and an emptied bank account.
419 scams keep getting better and better but somehow they all manage to fail right at the end.
According to GFI Labs blog, the latest scheme involves an email that congratulates you on being the winner of 1 million dollars. To make the whole thing a bit different from the rest of these scams, the victim is advised to share part of the fund with the poor people in his area, since that is the main target of the Hot Diamond Organization.
Once you access their website to claim your prize, you are immediately bombarded with all sorts of pop-ups that urge you to download all types of useful applications, such as Real Player.
The first question that pops up in my mind is “Why would I need Real Player now that I'm rich?”. Nevertheless, we move on and close all the adverts in search of our millions.
The website, which is quickly put together, is registered to a .tl domain that belongs to East Timor, a country found somewhere in the Pacific ocean, near Indonesia.
On the official page of the Hot Diamond Organization, we see a lot of diamonds (of course), previous winners of the lottery holding giant checks and even a page that presents the board of directors.
Here is where they really blew it. One of the members of the board, a lady, is called Mr. James Moore, while other members are described as “Mrs. Caroline” and “Mrs. Mary".
Finally, when you want to contact their offices to claim the reward, you are faced with a contact form that asks for all the details a hacker would need to get a hold of your bank account, including bank name, account number, the branch of the financial institution and its IFSC code.
