The lavish inheritance from an exotic country

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Also known as the Nigerian scam or the cyber stamp scam, it is easily found because it offers you to collect a million-dollar inheritance from the prince of a faraway country who needs to get the money out of the country or a more than succulent commission for collecting a lottery ticket. The subject matter has diversified, the translations are becoming more modern and sophisticated, but it is still exactly the same. In most cases, they look for mules to launder money in an operation that may seem simple but which can end up in jail.

Jokes, automatic introductions, videos and other jokes. Although it may seem unbelievable, the chain message system continues to work. Of course, now it has doubled the channels: it can reach us by email but also by WhatsApp, through social networks... These are the typical jokes that are distributed and forwarded more to take up time than for the jokes themselves, but which are used by many criminals to hide other things that are much less "funny".

And the 100-year curse. A variant of the above, which 1st cell phone in south africa usually comes with a serious warning if you don't distribute a letter, a spell, tell 10 women or men that they are the most beautiful thing you've ever seen, or delete a supposed Windows file that is used to spy on you. The punishment for all this is always very bad things that can happen to you, and that nobody experiences, but that help distribute inappropriate content that uses the well-known saying "there are some."

The lovers. Many years ago, security companies began to warn about the plague of Russian beauties who contacted Spaniards via email because they had fallen madly in love with them. Once contact and conversation had been established, they ended up asking them for money to come to our country to meet them, and once the financial amount had been transferred, they disappeared. Today it continues to happen, but it is no longer exclusive to beautiful women or Russians, but both men and women, and from any country of origin, dare to pass the statistic... Because there are always many people in need of affection.

Invest, invest, invest!! Although in our country there is not much tradition of playing the Stock Market, as for example in the United Kingdom or the United States, we see more and more frequently in Spanish emails that warn you of certain values ​​that are going to rise a lot in the Stock Market, becoming a unique opportunity to earn money quickly and easily. There are two variations: from those that have false online services so that all the data is entered and they turn out not to be legal, to those that even if they have real sites, the operation does not mean any kind of profit, since it is simply a speculative activity to generate movements of a specific value.

Million-dollar deals. If you have received one, you will surely have stopped to think about why it had not occurred to you before. They all come with a proposal to open a business that will bring you a million-dollar profit in a very short period of time. Of course, to start it, they will ask you for an investment that you can recover in a short space of time... But that is only the theory, because in practice there is no business and you will not become a millionaire or recover your investment.

If we know how to recognize their mechanisms, it will be very easy to avoid being victims of these frauds that circulate on the Internet every day and that we can find not only in our email, but also in other places such as job portals or social networks, among others.

If any of these are detected, ESET Spain recommends that you report them to the authorities to prevent other people from losing their money, time and patience by falling victim to cybercriminals.