According to F-Secure a security company, has found a new way diverted from a Nigerian 419 e-mail scams which apparently justifies the most recent advance fee fraud schemes, so that publishes daily news on the news up to 22 August 2011.
Thereafter, the e-mails tell recipients that incase you have suffered economic losses for a Nigerian 419 scam e-mail you are welcome to claim compensation for the payment of an appropriate fee. Security News newspaper reported this.
Furthermore, in accordance with the fake e-mails, credit compensatory sums have been deposited in an account at Citibank Nigeria, where it will move to the required accounts, without charge of any office under the Federal Government’s instructions Nigeria. Therefore, the claimants need not spend money for things like taxes or transfer fees, while the Foreign Ministry will oversee the transfer for confirmation.
In addition, e-mail and ask victims to provide their previous scam email and electronic identifier names in any of the identifiers of two dice (that Citibank Nigeria, allegedly created), to help make checks call.
Meanwhile, according to security researchers, beyond the 419 scam is not the only one of its kind conducted in Nigeria. Several fraud cases involving 419 apparently occurred during 2011. (Thedentalspa) In fact, during the first half of July 2011, Message Labs, said there was a Nigerian scam e-mail 419 involving the new IMF chief, Christine Lagarde, where users were asked to pay $ 45 as deposit of Benin, located IMF to celebrate the appointment of Lagarde.
Thus, the researchers recommend that someone incase the above type of e-mail should be ignored, while end-users should also install anti-malware on their computers to keep up to protect their systems.