You would have come across hundreds of emails which just announce that you had WON hundred million dollars in a lottery or someone in Nigeria had left 10 million pounds in inheritance to you or something like that.

These are all email scams and unfortunately many fall in these traps, just to loose your money, time and confidence in the end.

Till now scammers were using the subject fields or the main body of the email to announce that you have won the money. But many of the email clients have now updated their spam filters and most of these emails now find solace in your spam folder.

Seeing this trend, email scammers have now started using the “From” field for the big announcement. The reason being that the spam filters look for the spam and dubious keywords in the main body and the Subject field and the From filed often go pass through.

We have

got one such screenshot of such an email.

Watch out..

email-scams

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