Thousands of text messages have been sent to thousands of residents in Australia with a threatening message. Police agencies across Australia have been notifying the residents about these death threats text messages. They are telling the people to delete the messages immediately upon receiving it and to not panic, since it will give the scammer a perfect opportunity. The police were surprised by this style of spam. They said that there was no other scam that has reached that many people in Australia in the matter of a few hours. The message reads: "Sum1 paid me to kill you. Get spared, 48hrs to pay $5000. If you inform the police or anybody, death is promised." It then directs the recipient to contact them at a Yahoo email account.
I find this so interesting. I think that the elderly will be the ones to fall for this scam since they don't know much about technology. If this happened to me, I would immediately delete it and forget about it because scam happens so much these days.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/23/tech/australia-death-threat-text-messages/index.html
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