It never fails with any natural disaster or well publicized crisis that someone takes it as an opportunity to profit off of others fears and weakness. The recent swine flu scare is no different. We’ve seen a huge uptick in ’swine flu’ spam and scams so remember to keep your guard up. Most of the messages are hawking all kinds of swine flu prevention from masks, to non-existent vaccines, even herbal cures. Some of the subject lines are “Swine flu medicine available now”; “Hurry up, swine flu drugs almost sold out”; “Vaccine protecting against swine flu”; “Herbal cure for swine flu.”
Needless to say there is no cure or vaccine for swine flu so remember to wash your hands regularly, monitor contact with those who appear ill and seek the advice of medical professionals for any questions or assistance. And, if any of these messages do make it past your email security solution, just DELETE.
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