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Is there a terrorist in your mailbox?
Updated On: 08 October, 2009 07:11 AM IST | | Shashank Shekhar
Cyber crooks are sending spoof messages by hacking into e-mail accounts. Experts say the tactic is difficult to trace
Cyber crooks are sending spoof messages by hacking into e-mail accounts. Experts say the tactic is difficult to trace
What is common between Vaibhav Sinha (name changed), a student of journalism at a Noida media school and US national Ken Haywood?
While Haywood's Internet account was hacked by terrorists involved in the July 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts to send out threat e-mails, cyber crooks took over Vaibhav's e-mail account to sent spoof messages from his ID.
The 24-year-old student was baffled to find pictures of a girl from his institute in his mailbox. The e-mail, originating from his e-mail account, was sent to a number of other addresses. When he checked the sent items folder the mail was there too.
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