Who uses online streams for the US TV series Game of Thrones, should be careful with current e-mails. In this, cybercriminals try to get personal data by sending a false warning. The user is accused at professionally acting language level to have seen copyrighted material illegally on the Internet. To avoid hassle with lawyers, the user should click on a prepared website. In this case, the responsible persons are asking sufficient details to be able to misuse credit cards or other forms of payment.
The file sharing blog Torrentfreak has encountered such a phishing mail and has spoken with the authors of the TV station HBO (Home Box Office), or the company IP Echelon, which is responsible for HBO. IP Echelon takes care of the fight against copyright infringements and is usually employed to make illegal streaming and downloading offers of HBO productions like Game of Thrones offline.
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The company, however, assured against TorrentFreak, nothing to do with the current spam e-mails. According to IP Echelon, the US authorities have accepted the case. So far users are affected in the USA, but also in Australia. It can not be ruled out that similar attempts at fraud will also appear here - even with other, protected film and serial productions.
There are no offers to stream or download Game of Thrones illegally. Often, users are not pointed out their illegal activity. Corresponding users who receive such an e-mail should not be panicked at the same time, but their sources of reference are rethinking. By the way, by the way, it is certainly safe to play official opportunities for legal game of thrones streams and downloads. Anyone who follows this does not have to worry about spam and phishing e-mails at all and can delete them directly.
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