If you spend more than ten minutes on the Internet, you bump into a spam email or pop-up advertisement. In the past, most spam email topics centered on announcements that you won the lottery or to invest in off shore options. But the trend now in spam is to make very enticing emails and websites about medications and herbal supplements, including green tea fat burner capsules.
Keeping Up With The Trends
With the entire research cyber criminals do in setting up a scam, you do have to wonder if it just wouldn’t be a lot easier for them to get a full-time job? Sadly, a green tea fat burner diet pill scam that’s in effect for only a couple of weeks can often net the equivalent of a year’s salary at a legal paying job. Part of the research is keeping up with trends in what people are spending their money on.
There’s been a lot of hype, magazine covers and legitimate online advertisements about green tea fat burner capsules. Anything that gets hyped is going to be a source for a big-time (or little-time) spam scam. Often the spam promises a ton of green tea fat burner capsules at a fraction of the retail cost.
How The Scam Works
Green tea fat burner capsule spam scams work in two ways. The first is that the email or pop-up ad itself acts like a Trojan Horse. It looks innocent enough, but when you click to open the email, it places a kind of program called a Trojan Horse onto your computer. This program can do a variety of things, depending on how it was written. But the goal is still the same ? to get your personal information to use in fraud.
The second kind of green tea fat burner spam scam is the usual way spam works. You click on the email and it includes a tempting offer, maybe a pretty picture or two and a link to where you can buy discounted green tea fat burner capsules. When you click onto that link, it takes you to a website that looks perfectly legitimate. It then asks for your personal information, like your credit card number.
You pay and then you never get any green tea fat burner capsules. You go to the site to complain and discover that the website is no longer there. You then look at your bank statement and see that there are now a lot of strange charges on your card for stuff you never bought.