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Phishing Emails targeting NGOs

January 9, 2011 By

Phishing emails can sometimes pose as reputable organizations like the United Nations and offer invitation to your NGO to participate in a conference. For example, below is such an email:

Email Scam

You may end up believing that this is a genuine invitation because it says that it is from the “United Nations.”

You are wrong! It is very easy to disguise oneself over the internet – after all it is just an email that they need to create to trick you in believing that. If you receive such an email and wonder whether it is genuine or nor, simple select and copy its first few lines:

Then paste it inside the Google search box and search it:

You will get your answer. Scammers send such emails to thousands of people around the world and apparently, someone has already identified it and uploaded information about it for others to become alert.

In some cases, phishing has gone to an extent of scammers using real emails of organizations to send messages (but the reply email is always different). They also develop fraudulent websites to give the feel to the users that they are a genuine party. This happens usually with banking institutions.

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Comments

  1. Mr Bellal Hossain says:
    January 31, 2011 at 9:15 am

    Thank you so much for your valuable information and guidance!

  2. Bakht Muhammad says:
    January 28, 2011 at 7:34 am

    Thanks very much for this information on phishing. It has made us aware of tricky fund stealing from poor

  3. Lakshmikanta Singh says:
    January 22, 2011 at 9:37 am

    Thank you so much for your valuable information and guidance!

  4. David K. Adesina says:
    January 20, 2011 at 5:33 am

    Thanks for the useful information. It has alerted us not to fall a prey of rogues.

  5. Eng. Matthew J. Mati says:
    January 11, 2011 at 6:48 am

    Thanks very much for this information on phishing. It has made us aware of tricky fund stealing from poor

  6. dharmendra says:
    January 10, 2011 at 5:44 am

    i got the message from a fund raising company named Fiinovation – A Leading Fund Raising Company to offer my ngo some costly project amounting over 57 lac indian rupee under The AHS Program,against this the company demands from me the sum of over 1 lac indian rupee as advance money in the name of service charge, for the above said project.this message was emailed to us on 7 jan 2011. please help me in knowing the reality of this fundraiser company whether it is fake or not.
    thanking you

  7. Nazir Ahmed says:
    January 10, 2011 at 12:21 am

    Thank you for the warning and guidance against such traps

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