75% of spam mails are from Nigerian racket

Internet users around the world, continue to receive emails with various subjects, which ultimately tell the recipient various stories of transfer of fund by 'some dying millionaire' or their kits and kins. In recent days, even those people are sending emails to various email users using the named of Yahoo, Google, AOL, Hotmail, MSN etc asking the secret information such as passwords etc.

These groups are even using the name of US Department of State and other government offices with the goal of attaining people's confidence.

It is observed that, attacks of such spammers are gradually increasing amongst the internet users. In some cases, viruses are also sent with such mails.

Internet users are already becoming tired of such spam mails, mostly sent by such rackets. It is learnt that, main objective of such emails is to lure the recipient on the offered amount of money, and later those rackets ask the recipients for sending certain amount of money as 'legal fee' or 'transfer cost'. Once such money is sent, the rackets will quickly change their email address.

It is further learnt that, most of the members of such rackets are having internet based telephone numbers as well as satellite phones and such rackets are mostly operating from Nigeria and some of the poor African nations.

Regular internet users though are fully aware of such criminal actions of the rackets, many of the new users fall in the hands of such elements.

Commenting on such activities of this cyber criminals, an expert said, all those companies like Google, Yahoo. MSN, AOL, Hotmail etc need to initiate a special section, which is will in such spam mails and spammers. Internet users will be provided with a particular email address, through which they immediately can report the desk concerned once any such email is detected.

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75% of spam mails are from Nigerian racket

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