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Scams and Hoaxes
Malware-related
        A malware-related hoax gives false information regarding certain malware threats. In most cases, malware-related hoaxes are warnings of fictional malware threats that create unnecessary panic. These hoaxes oftentimes prompt users into performing unwanted actions on their systems.

Scams and shams
        Scams and shams include email messages that promise material gain or even luck to recipients who forward them to others users. Some luck-based hoaxes, often called chain letters, play on people’s fear of bad luck. Money-based hoaxes offer incredibly quick cash for simply forwarding a message. Certain popular scams have tricked users into investing their own money in fruitless investments.

Urban Legends
        Urban legends are stories written around day-to-day things, but are incorporated unusual twists in the form of unlikely facts that are difficult to verify. Designed to elicit emotional response, the most popular urban legends are health and animal scares.

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Hoaxes are misleading, often false, information that have spread or are spreading – the most common channel of this spread being email. Most users spread hoaxes inadvertently by forwarding them. Others intentionally send out messages to trick unsuspecting recipients into falling victims to moneymaking schemes.

This hoax encyclopedia is a repository of common hoaxes and is dedicated to the fight against wasted time, bandwidth, and even finances. It protects users against destructive misinformation, as was the case of several recipients who deleted a legitimate system file from their systems after receiving the JDBGMGR.EXE Hoax.

The hoaxes in this repository have been classified as malware-related, urban legend, and scams and shams. False malware warnings, health scares, and stories of Nigerian dictators should fall under each category, respectively.

If you feel that an email you received is a hoax, keep it to yourself and avoid forwarding it. Consider the following pointers on how to identify a hoax:

  1. A reward, such as money, or a penalty, like bad luck, is usually emphasized as a consequence for forwarding or not forwarding a hoax message.
  2. A hoax message will usually try to gain credibility by appearing to be based on sound technical standpoint or by referencing legitimate or legitimate-sounding organizations or individuals.

You can forward all suspect hoax email to hoaxes@trendmicro.com

      

 


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