Every year in Latvia hundreds of people are defrauded online – not only falling for the schemes of fake lottery organisers and internet scammers, but also believing misleading information spread on behalf of Inbox.lv with the aim of luring out users’ login details. As the number of various fraudulent e-mails has increased significantly over the past few days, the national e-service Inbox.lv urges users to stay vigilant and to avoid disclosing any confidential information, as well as making payments for unclear purposes or to unclear recipients. It should be noted that internet fraudsters sometimes pose as e-mail server administrators in order to obtain e-mail account access details and later use e-mail to infect computers for further data theft. We therefore wish to stress that Inbox.lv will never send e-mails asking you to provide account passwords or other important information.
As security experts point out, fraudulent e-mails increasingly use intimidation techniques, for example “Your e-mail will be deleted!”, demanding that the user react quickly. If you have received a suspicious-looking message and are not sure about its sender, please first inform our technical support team by writing to support@inbox.lv and we will advise you on how to act in the specific situation.
First example of a phishing e-mail:
Account cleanup. You must confirm your registration by replying to this message and stating your username and password in the subject line in the format log=your_login; pass=your_password, and our robot will process your request. Otherwise we will delete your account together with the contents of your mailbox.
Second example of a phishing e-mail:
Congratulations, dear 2017 inbox .V user, we are pleased to inform you that your e-mail has won EUR 1.5 million (1,500,000.00) in our e-mail promotion draw on the selection list, and you are there, you are advised to contact TNT courier mail about your money claim. Once again we congratulate our lucky winner. here is the e-mail address of the TNT courier company contact person to contact. tntcourierexpress119@gmail.com Regards Inbox.lv team
Third example of a phishing e-mail:
Dear Inbox.lv user,
We are writing to inform you that you have exceeded the storage quota which allocated to your account.
To avoid data loss, you must upgrade your account to receive a free account of 10 GB space.
Please note that you may not be able to receive messages in the future in your mailbox and your account will be deactivated if you do not so upgrade your account.
Please click here to get free storage 10 GB
The Inbox.lv team is here to protect your online activities.
Thank you,
Security @ Inbox.lv
Fourth example of a phishing e-mail:
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating all scam victims and your email address was found in the scam victims list. This money gram or western union office has been authorized by the IMF to transfer your compensation to you via Western Union® Money Transfer.
However, we have concluded that your daily money or money transfer via western union funds totalling USD 850,000 will be transferred to you in full. we cannot send the payment with your email address alone, so we need your information on where we will send such funds as;
Your receiver name –
Country receive —–
Phone number —-
Post copy —-
! Whatever these messages may say, never reply to any e-mails with similar content.
