email scammer
Inbox fraud artist
An email scammer is someone who uses fraudulent emails to deceive people, typically to steal money or personal information.
Common tactics include fake lottery winnings, romance schemes, phishing for passwords, and the notorious Nigerian prince offering to share millions: The email scammer posed as a bank representative asking me to verify my account.
Also called an internet scammer or online fraudster.
- phishingFraudulent credential harvesting
- Nigerian princeEmail scam persona
- dear friendCherished intimate companion
- spamUnsolicited bulk messages
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
advance fee · inbox · wire transfer · send money · gift cards · urgent · act now · lottery · too good to be true · inheritance · hacker · catfish · malware · reply · click here · bank account · identity theft · suspicious
- swindlerscon artist, swindler, fraudster, grifter, charlatan
- cybercriminalshacker, hackers, scammers, phishers, phisher
- Hackershacker, black hat, cracker, script kiddie, hacktivist
legitimacy/intent
email scammerauthorized representative
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