We all know that the economy of the world is not in a healthy state right now. To many, myself included, it is believed that this is going to spur an increase in the amount of get rich email scams. With people losing their life savings, or with the interest rate being dropped to subzero ranges. Many internet users will be willing to take more of a chance and open up their home and most likly their “bank account”
Do not fall prey to these ploys. If indeed you have lost your money in the stock game, or you have your thousands of dollars in a saving account that is not paying any interest. You will not make any money on these ploys. In fact you will, potentially lost what ever money you have left in your account.
McAfee’s annual “Virtual Criminology Report” says that 873 money mule recruitment Web pages were detected in Britain in the first half of 2008, This was reported to be a 33 percent increase over the first half of 2007. That data was compiled by APACS, the United Kingdom’s payment-industry trade group.
McAfee is not the only one warning of this rise in trends. Panda Security, a Spanish software vendor, found that job-related messages hit a new record of 0.31 percent of all spam in October 2008. This is nearly a tripleing the August 2008 numbers. It was also reported that recruiting money mules had rose 1.8 present in October. The rate in August 2008 was 0.5 percent.
As we go forward we will likely see these numbers increase.
