VERY IMPORTANT

Email scammers always seem to invent new ways of trickery to gain cash from their victims. We recently came across a case where the scammer reused some existing scripts to phish and scam - copy and paste style. With a bit of modification, the script works like ransomware, without the hassle of having to compile a portable executable. This screen locker ransomware variant locks the user's screen and demand a ransom rather than the typical file encryption style ransomware. The ransom demanded in this case was in the form of Google Play Cards.