Police cautioned about fresh scamming tactics carried out through the MSN online messaging mechanism wherein it became necessary for those victimized towards deleting their accounts alternatively resetting personal passwords. Taipei Times reported this on August 26, 2011.
Apparently, while executing the attacks, the 'scammers' first committed fraud prior to invading the victim's MSN (instant messaging) account then asked for users who would purchase Internet-games, win scores and subsequently vanish. One more tactic involved directing Internet-users to open the scammers' blogs and when done, a Trojan would get installed that'd seize the victims' account passwords, according to the police.
Moreover, given that MSN user victims rose in number, the 165 hotline center for anti-fraud of the government reiterated to people that incase there was a hack into anyone's instant messaging account, he must contact police right away and complete one authorization form for halting operations through the affected account.
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