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Attack Date:
May 22, 2022

Legal Matter Extortion Attack

Initial Email Content

Subject
CASE NO: FGTM-98524L2
Body

To, [Recipient Name]

Address: [Recipient Address]

Email: [Recipient Email Address]


This is last chance for you, to hold this Case File you must submit a minimum payment of $300.00


You can email us on below address for any query or payment mode;

acsdebtsettlementdepartment.us@gmail.com


This Legal Proceeding will be issued on your Docket Number DL-20731642 with one of Cash Advance Inc. Company to let you know that after making calls on your phone number, we were unable to reach out to you. So, the account's department of Cash Advance has decided to mark this case as a Flat Refusal and press Legal Charges against you.


CASE NO: FGTM-98524L2

Amount Outstanding: $1210.86 


We have sent you this warning notification about legal proceedings of March 8, 2015, but you failed to respond on time now. If you failed to respond in next 4 HOURS, we will register this case in court. Consider this as a final warning. And we will be Emailing/ Fax this issue to your current employer to make sure they take strict against you. Your salary wages will we garnished.


Do revert if you want to get rid of these legal consequences and make payment arrangement today or else, we will be proceeding legally against you and this notification will also be sent to your current employer. The opportunity to take care of this voluntarily is quickly coming to an end. I regret to advise that unless payment is received before end of this week this invoice will be passed over to our legal authority. This could seriously affect your credit rating, so I urge you contact us immediately to make payment or arrange an alternative before this date.

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Attack Description

This text-based extortion attack uses a maliciously registered domain and a legal matter theme to demand a payment.

Analysis Overview

Tactic
Maliciously Registered Domain
Goal
Extortion
Impersonated Party
Vector
Text-based
Theme
Legal Matter
Language