{"id":124,"date":"2007-01-12T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T15:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-01-12T07:19:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T15:19:50","slug":"contract-killer-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2007\/01\/contract-killer-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract Killer Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/support\/sophoslabs\/index.html\">SophosLabs<\/a>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, Sophos&#8217;s spam analysis centers, have warned of a spam email that pretends to come from a professional hitman, hired to kill the recipient, but are really interested in stealing money.The emails claim that the recipient has been stalked by a hired assassin for 10 days, but that the hitman is prepared to drop the contract if he is paid a total of $80,000. Upon receiving an initial advance payment of $20,000 the hitman claims that he will produce taped evidence of the contract to kill the reader of the email.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the email, which start with a cheery greeting of &#8220;Good day&#8221; and can have a subject line of &#8220;Read this to be safe and a new life in this new year&#8221;, reads:<\/p>\n<div class=\"indented\"><tt>Do not contact the police or F.B.I. or try to send a copy of this to them, because if you do i will know, and might be pushed to do what i have being paid to do, beside, this is the first time I turned out to be a betrayer in my job.<\/tt><\/div>\n<p>According to Sophos experts, once a victim has been drawn into the scam, requests can be made from the fraudster for private information which may lead to requests for money, stolen identities, and financial theft.<\/p>\n<p>Read Story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/pressoffice\/news\/articles\/2007\/01\/deathphish.html\">Sophos Site\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts at SophosLabs\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, Sophos&#8217;s spam analysis centers, have warned of a spam email that pretends to come from a professional hitman, hired to kill the recipient, but are really interested in stealing money.The emails claim that the recipient has been stalked by a hired assassin for 10 days, but that the hitman is prepared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}