Security experts from MicroWorld
Technologies informs A hoax email about the death of the leading Indian Actress
and former Miss World, Aishwarya Rai, is doing rounds fuelling mass hysteria,
going with a fake BBC webpage to boot.
The mail reads in its counterfeit
BBC news piece-
"The Highest Paid Bollywood Actress Ashwariya
Rai, has been killed in a head-on car crash.
Ms. Rai, 32, from India,
was killed in the crash in the, near Firle, East Sussex.
She had
been at a special screening of her forth coming bollywood movie at Cannes Film
Festival at nearby Drusillas Park before the fatal smash involving her blue Renault
Megane and a city School Bus occurred.
A spokeswoman for Sussex
Police said she was lifted from the scene by the Sussex Police and taken to Eastbourne
District General Hospital, where she died from her injuries. Whereas her driver
on the other hand died on the spot"
Written in true blue BBC style,
this hoax looks like an authentic BBC webpage in every respect, complete with
the logo and other links. What comes in BBC is considered to be the gospel truth
for millions of people across the world, and this has just added fuel to the raging
fire of this chain mail hoax. According to the statistics available for the last
24 hours, this is the largest circulating chain mail in the South Asian region.
Fear
psychosis caused by mails like these can create wide-spread panic or even a stock
market collapse. Repercussions of such malicious messages can have severe social
and financial impacts as well.
"This email is a clear indication that
people are faking anything and everything that's respected for its reliability
and authority. One needs to read this hoax mail along the lines of a flood of
phishing scams that make merry by faking emails and websites of trusted organizations.
There have been scams spoofing credit card companies, banks, governmental departments
and even the FBI, done in a similar fashion," said Aneesh Paliwal, Security
Analyst, MicroWorld Technologies.
"Spam and chain mails can be quiet
harmful to the day-to-day operations of enterprises," points out Govind Rammurthy,
CEO, MicroWorld Technologies. "At the first
level, it's about the productivity loss. At the second level, it's about online
fraudulent schemes and malware distribution. One just can't think of securing
online business communication without fighting the menace of unsolicited mails."
MicroWorld Technologies has been consistently protecting enterprises and
home users from spamming and phishing, with their AntiVirus and Content security
solutions eScan and
MailScan and
their focused spam buster X-spam.
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