{"id":232,"date":"2011-05-18T06:15:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T06:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/?p=232"},"modified":"2017-08-24T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:17:50","slug":"internet-fraudsters-assert-celebrities-have-died-in-plane-crash-in-latest-trojan-virus-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/hackers\/internet-fraudsters-assert-celebrities-have-died-in-plane-crash-in-latest-trojan-virus-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet fraudsters assert celebrities have died in plane crash in latest Trojan virus assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now a days an unauthorized persons are hacking easily around social networking by the way of celebrity names Internet fraudsters are with hoax stories about the death of major celebrities to put in viruses on thousands of people\u2019s computers.<\/p>\n

Scammers <\/strong>are conveyance emails contain links which claim that people like Beyonce, Tom Cruise or Tiger Woods <\/strong><\/em>have died in a plane or car crash. One ordinary email claims that the named celebrity has died along with 34 other people when their plane crashed into a mountainside while forthcoming the airport. Recipients are asked to open an attachment for further details. But when the user clicks on the link<\/strong> a Trojan computer virus is installed on their computer which can then give the virus\u2019 creator complete remote control of their machine.<\/p>\n

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According to internet security firm Symantec there has been a sharp rise in Trojan.Zbot infection since the start of August.The firm is considering around 80,000 \u2013 100,000 <\/strong><\/em>infections each day using a diversity of different scams<\/strong>. The Zeus Trojan has been lively for the past year and is used by fraudsters to steal information together with logins and passwords which are stored on the user\u2019s PC.<\/p>\n

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The fraudster can then use the PC owner\u2019s logins and passwords to search bank accounts or imply harvest the details and sell them onto other fraudsters via underground servers Con Mallon, Norton Internet Security Expert, said: eventually your PC become a bot and therefore falls beneath the control of the \u2018bot master\u2019<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This person or persons can then send commands to your machine. \u2018For example one thing we have notice that it can do is to remove your \u2018cookies\u2019 meaning the next time you log into a web site you have to enter in the login and password and Zeus can monitor this and then send this information to a remote server.<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 The Zeus Trojan is even able to put in extra fields to otherwise safe web pages. This could be used to add a \u2018false\u2019 field that requisite you to type in your national security number when you are doing internet banking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now a days an unauthorized persons are hacking easily around social networking by the way of celebrity names Internet fraudsters are with hoax stories about the death of major celebrities to put in viruses on thousands of people\u2019s computers. Scammers are conveyance emails contain links which claim that people like Beyonce, Tom Cruise or Tiger … Continue reading “Internet fraudsters assert celebrities have died in plane crash in latest Trojan virus assault”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[61,62],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hackers","tag-beyonce","tag-tom-cruise-or-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}