by TerranceBoyce
Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:24 pm
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2014/03/14/sick_cancer_scare_malware_scam/?
I doubt it's going to be a very successful ploy as anyone who has had any connection with cancer will know that NICE, though a UK health body, has nothing to do with the provision of test results and, anyone who hasn't had blood tests, isn't going to be expecting results.
One major disadvantage of using such a sick ploy is that it gets maximum coverage in the media.
Sick fraudsters have put out a batch of malware-riddled hoax emails warning recipients that they may have cancer.
The scam emails purport to come from the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice). The emails - which arrive with the header "important blood analysis result" - ask prospective victims to download and print out “test results” from an attachment that's likely to be laced with a bank-account-raiding Trojan.
I doubt it's going to be a very successful ploy as anyone who has had any connection with cancer will know that NICE, though a UK health body, has nothing to do with the provision of test results and, anyone who hasn't had blood tests, isn't going to be expecting results.
One major disadvantage of using such a sick ploy is that it gets maximum coverage in the media.
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