Some VIPs who use Gmail — including high-ranking U.S. officials — had their email accounts hacked in a phishing scam that apparently originated from China, Google announced in a blog post on Wednesday.
The “campaign,” as Google called it, affected hundreds of users “including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists.”
By Mike Zapler | 1/06/2011
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Phishing e-mails are e-mails, which can be sent through ordinary email services with intrusion purposes. Users of e-mail services must be aware of this kind of e-mails and don’t provide their private information for hijackers. Let me share my own experience with you. A few months ago I was received an e-mail said “I’m a guy who leaves in a refugee camp, and I’m not able to withdraw my money from my dead father’s account. I need someone from outside help me to transfer some million dollars. I will pay you whenever I come out of this hell. And ….” At that time, fortunately I knew this sort of fraudulence, but I liked to play some steps with the guys to learn how they are going to act. They first started from the emotional aspect to attract me then asked me to send them some verification, which shows my identity to generate trust that they are real (of course I sent them some fake identity information). Finally, they asked me to talk to a lawyer of them and pay some dollars for transfer processes. Thus, be careful gays and don’t trust such kind of e-mails.
