Today, almost everyone knows about Internet fraud. Every day, unscrupulous people earn a large amount of money from naive users of the World Wide Web. Unfortunately, some deception schemes do not raise doubts among the victims. Without hesitation, they perform the actions that the fraudster asks to perform, and, suspecting nothing, transfer from a couple of rubles to several thousand to the account of an unscrupulous person. Many users of the social network are offered to help a sick person with the help of Epuls and Onet. What it is, you can find out in our article.
What is spam?
Surely every Internet user has encountered spam at least once. Such a concept is assigned to letters that do not carry any useful information for the owner of the mailbox. Such a mailing comes to the email box daily and clogs it. Because of this, you can easily lose the information you really need.
Not everyone knows, but a spam email can also contain various types of files. As a rule, scammers place various viruses in them, which may notonly harm your computer, but steal your personal data.
Deception schemes through spam became most popular when it became possible to make money transactions via the Internet. Today there are a huge number of people who want to take possession of money without much effort. However, sooner or later such swindlers are calculated and punished according to the law. Most often, this is imprisonment for up to 10 years.
Distinguishing spam from regular emails is quite easy. As a rule, scammers use large or colored font that attracts attention. Spam is not always a potential threat. It may also contain promotional text.
Message asking for help
Since 2009, information about the charity event "Epuls and Onet agree to help them" can be found on Internet resources. Almost every user of social networks and applications for quickly sending messages knows about it. It consists in the fact that you receive a letter asking for help, in which the child's parents or relatives of a person talk about the illness of their loved one. They claim that Epuls and Onet agree to help them. To do this, you just need to forward the text of the message to your friends and acquaintances. Onet keeps track of the number of submitted requests. For every 3-10 outgoing messages from the same person, a certain amount of money will be sent to the patient's details.
Todaythere is a lot of information about Epuls and Onet. Almost every Internet user knows what it is. The message, as a rule, contains information that donated blood or material assistance is urgently needed. In it you can also find a phone number to contact the relatives of the patient.
What are Epuls and Onet really?
Many people will know from the received message that there are Epuls and Onet systems. What it is, at this stage, few know. Let's explain in more detail.
Not many people know, but Epuls is a popular social network. It is registered in Poland. In its functions, it is similar to the social network VKontakte.
Onet is a newspaper that also operates in Poland. None of the companies has anything to do with spamming.
Who sends help messages?
Usually, advertising messages are sent by complete strangers. A request for help that mentions Epuls and Onet is most often sent by friends and acquaintances of the recipient. This is not accidental, because in order to help the patient, you just need to send a few messages. However, can such mailing really help a sick child or adult get a certain amount of funds for a long-awaited recovery? We will talk about this a little later. It's no secret that in most cases, after reading a message from a friend asking for help to a person, the recipient alsostarts sending the text to all his friends. The sender hopes that the mass mailing he made will help save someone's life.
The whole truth about messages asking for help. Virus in text
For several years, experts have been warning absolutely everyone: "Beware, spam can do harm!". This is no coincidence, because, as we said earlier, it can become a potential threat to your personal data and the computer itself.
Since 2009, in many social networks you can find a request for help, which mentions Epuls and Onet (we have already figured out what it is). It is for this reason that Internet users often respond to such requests without hesitation.
In fact, this message is nothing more than a story invented by scammers. The fact that the text asking for help with the mention of Epuls and Onet is a hoax, many guessed about five years ago. The thing is that the text of the message has never changed since the day it was written. It is for this reason that Internet users read the same story every year.
There are several versions of how a seemingly harmless message can help not a sick person, but the most ordinary fraudster. Many argue that a certain code with a virus is hidden in the text. Opening a message will activate it. This virus will automatically send all the passwords from your gadget to the scammer. If you have a virtual wallet installed on your device, do notWe recommend opening a similar message. Otherwise, soon all the funds from it will disappear forever.
Money withdrawal from mobile account
There is another type of scam. Often, such a message indicates the location of the patient and the required group of donor blood. This is no coincidence, because the text also contains a phone number that, at first glance, seems to be local. However, as a rule, there is only one extra digit. People who were touched by the text of the message want to help the patient and without hesitation dial the indicated number in order to donate blood or find out the details. Epuls and Onet are often discussed on social networks. Feedback from people who wanted to help and called the indicated number indicates that money is being withdrawn for connecting with the subscriber, and in fact no one needed help, and the ad was created for dishonest earnings.
Summing up
Today there are a large number of scammers who want to take over your data or money. The fraud schemes also include an ad that mentions Epuls and Onet. What is it, we told in our article. We encourage you to share this information with your family and friends. Take care not only about your own, but also about the safety of others.
