PSA: Warning, Phishers have arrived!

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Two nights ago, I checked my inbox. I had a message from a user named “Izzy”. Upon opening I discovered its noting but an evil phishing plot. Here is the contents of the message:

Dear Friend, I know that this is an unusual platform for us to be discussing this Kind of business but the situation has necessitated me to use this Medium to communicate you for now. But let me introduce myself to you. I am Miss. Elizabeth Mark, the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of my Bank. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of US$14.5M, (Fourteen Million, and Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) at our head office Accra Ghana, that belongs to one of our foreign customers, who died along with his wife and only son in a plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight number 261 which crashed on 31 January, 2000. The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist and a resident of Alaska. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this Business proposal to you and for our bank to release the money to You, for more detail send me an email in my private email address(
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) Yours truly, Miss. Elizabeth Mark.

 If you see something like this in your Inbox or Email please discard it. It’s a scam.