A user within your organization received an email relating how an account containing a large sum of money has been frozen by the government of a small Middle Eastern nation. The user was offered a 25% share of this account if she would help the sender transfer it to a bank in the United States. The user responded and was instructed to wire $5,000 to the sender to facilitate the transfer. She complied, but has not heard from the sender since. What type of attack occurred in this scenario?

In a fixed-term, level-payment reverse mortgage, sometimes called a reverse annuity mortgage, or ram, a lender agrees to pay the homeowner a monthly payment, or annuity, and expects to be repaid from the homeowner’s equity when he or she sells the home or obtains other financing to pay off the ram. consider a household that owns a $150,000 home free and clear of mortgage debt. the ram lender agrees to a $100,000 ram for 10 years at 6 percent. assume payments are made annually, at the beginning of each year to the homeowner. calculate the annual payment on the ram.