Advance Fee Fraud, Advanced Fee Fraud … or 419 Scams, or simply Scams?
Is it Advance Fee Fraud or Advanced Fee Fraud? Or 419 Scams, or simply Scams? Of late the meanings of these phrases are getting lost and causing confusion.
Advance Fee Fraud: Content Issues or DNS Abuse?
All to often we see people that should know better, claiming that Advance Fee Fraud (AFF) is purely content issues. A while back a senior person at a company offering security services, which includes email filtering, expressed his surprise that AFF uses bespoke domains to defraud. More recently a community member of ICANN denied that domains and DNS abuse is seen in consumer facing threats. When he was shown such, he was surprised. What is DNS? DNS is an abbreviation…