{"id":509,"date":"2011-08-08T06:03:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/?p=509"},"modified":"2017-08-24T06:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:38:15","slug":"breaking-news-counterfeit-statement-of-fidel-castros-death-lead-to-malware-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/celebrity-death-hoaxs\/breaking-news-counterfeit-statement-of-fidel-castros-death-lead-to-malware-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Counterfeit statement of Fidel Castro’s death lead to malware assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exist on your protector if you take delivery of an email apparently from Chile’s “24 Horas” news website announce the death of Fidel Castro, the former dictator of Cuba.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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The spammed <\/strong>out messages, which are written in Spanish, look like the following:<\/p>\n

The messages have a topic line of<\/p>\n

Murio Fidel Castro <\/strong><\/p>\n


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And the text in the emails claims that the longtime Cuban ruler died in the afternoon at his home, and that official claim that he was in use ill a few days ago after suffering a unexpected heart attack.<\/p>\n

Recipients are urging to click on the image to see a breaking news video report about Fidel Castro’s death.<\/p>\n

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Of course, if Castro was actually dead (it’s believed that he has been in very poor health for some years) then it would be headline news on the likes of the BBC and CNN<\/strong>. But I haven’t seen any reports from those news outlets.<\/p>\n

So don’t be fooled into clicking on the links in this email, as they will take your computer to a Trojan horse (which Sophos detects as Troj\/DwnLdr-JGW) that in turns downloads further malicious code (Troj\/Agent-SYF) onto your Windows PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exist on your protector if you take delivery of an email apparently from Chile’s “24 Horas” news website announce the death of Fidel Castro, the former dictator of Cuba. The spammed out messages, which are written in Spanish, look like the following: The messages have a topic line of Murio Fidel Castro   And the … Continue reading “Breaking news: Counterfeit statement of Fidel Castro’s death lead to malware 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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-death-hoaxs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}