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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