14 DAY TRIAL // The latest spam email that's been circulating after the passing of Steve Jobs promises a great opportunity for young programmers who can be helped by a small donation on the recipients part.
The message entitled “Raise money for Steve Jobs Charity Fond!” reveals in a bad English that it wants to support “young webcoders”.
Even though this is not the first message of this kind, it's certainly not the last.
Once the link contained in the email is clicked, the unsuspecting user is taken to an online casino payment site, as revealed by Trend Micro.
The message reads:
Good afternoon
Steve Jobs Charitable Foundation ask people about help for young webcoders. Majority of young gifted people do not have opportunity to study and bring their idea into life. As most known innovators in IT we support the individuals who dare to be different and work hard to change our living quality for better.
You are the one whi can join us. Even a small amount will work for us and for good. We will keep in touch sending the reports of our activities.
It's clear that even if Apple's founder would have wanted to help programmers, he wouldn't have done it by spamming the inboxes of internauts.
During his lifetime, Steve Jobs wasn't much of a philanthropist, but if you are and you want to support charities, you can address any legitimate philanthropic institution that will properly handle donations.
If you give in to such a request, you're not helping any youths, instead you are filling the poker account of some cybercrook who will use the profit for nothing close to charity.
You might encounter more sophisticated similar requests but even if the donation websites doesn't look like a gambling payment page, make sure not to fall for the scam. Pretty pages and well designed colors don't necessarily mean that the site is legit.