E-mail scammers are trying to exploit the tsunami
disaster in the Indian Ocean.
IntY, which provides e-mail anti-virus and spam protection
services to thousands of UK small business customers, has warned of
the fraud attempts.
IntY's MailDefender service has stopped well over 2,000
different e-mails claiming to be from victims of the disaster and
asking for help.
Mark Herbert, IntY chief executive officer, said, "These spam
messages are variants of the 419 Nigerian fraud scam messages, and
add to the overall volume of spam that small businesses have to
wade through.
“Distracting IT resources from the core business to spam
clean-up is hugely wasteful for a small enterprise.”
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