Attorney general Larry Long says that an email scam involving "hired killers" is making rounds on the Internet. Investigators have already received more than five complaints about the email in the past week.
Attorney general Larry Long said that the latest scam is a straightforward attempt by con artists to exploit people with fear.
The e-mail
warns people to not contact the police and the email claims to be a threat from a hired killer. The message than continues to say that the victim can stop his or her own murder by wiring a specific amount of money to the sender.
Long said that people should not respond to the email and that if anyone is worried about suspicious e-mails than they can contact the FBI or forward the emails to the state's consumer protection division.
According to the attorney's general's office, there are two other scams that have surfaced in email and on lookalike Internal Revenue Service websites.
One email claims that you are eligible for a refund or that your tax return will be audited. When people click on the link provided, they are sent to a website that looks like the IRS web site but it's a fake.
The second scam involves lookalike IRS web sites that ask for information such as bank account numbers or Social Security numbers.
These scams seem to surface a lot more around this time of the year due to the oncoming tax season.
Email scam involving 'hired killers' spreading across Internet
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