Donation scammers: helping Ukraine as a scam
Ukraine scammers are expanding their campaign repertoire. Bitdefender's Antispam Lab monitors new scam mail campaigns related to the Ukraine war. Donation fraud with fake emails from aid organizations, welfare organizations, fake websites, fraudulent crowdfunding. Since the outbreak of the war, Bitdefender Anti Spam Lab's filters have been finding e-mails that seek to exploit the willingness of the general public to help. And the trend is rising: spam mails on the back of the tragedy are becoming more, more sophisticated and cynically better and better tailored to the target group, as the following examples show. Calls for crypto donations In a campaign, the authors call for donations to crypto wallets. The first two…