Crooks request personal data that may be used in other scams
Holidays are a great time for cybercriminals to exert their social engineering talent and dupe users into providing valuable information or make a small wire transfer in exchange for the promise of a big win.
Since Easter is just days behind in the Orthodox tradition, crooks have launched a malicious email campaign in an effort to make some money, claiming that the recipients of the deceitful messages have been selected as the winners of a significant cash prize.
Crooks make the message as credible as possible
The amount promised is £950,000 (€1.32 / $1.4 million) and winning it was supposedly the result of a raffle organized by Microsoft’ UK division, as part of an alleged Easter Promotion.
