Techniques in which the attackers purchase domains and create emails that are similar to the victim and their correspondent. In some cases, the emails may differ by only one letter.
This article is about how Nigerian Scammers work?
Interesting to find out how thorough their planning and executions are.
It is not easy
From the article
To select their victims, the group of fraudsters peruses sites such as Alibaba in an effort to identify potential victims who reside in countries in which they already have existing bank accounts
he scammers also tend to target users who have registered accounts with free email providers, such as Yahoo!, Google and Hotmail.
Once a victim has been chosen, the fraudsters must figure out a way to deliver to them remote access tools (RATs) and other exploits.
For more details:
http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/cyber-security/the-four-cs-of-a-nigerian-payment-diversion-scam/
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