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jambutty 01-03-2006 10:47

BEWARE an email like this.
 
BEWARE an email like this:
Quote:

Dear, [email protected]
Thank you for your Cash2Ecurrency Order.
This message is to confirm the successful posting of your order with the following data:

ORDER SUMMARY:
Order Identification Number: 56712842
Ecurrency Ordered: E-Gold
Exact Amount You Will Receive: 850 USD worth of E-Gold
Our Service Fee: 68.00 USD ( 8% )
Exact Amount We Have To Receive: 918.00 USD
E-Gold Account that we will fund: 1126589

PAYMENT METHOD: You have selected to transfer money to us using Bank Transfer

PAYER INFORMATION:
Name: Stanislav Rudnik
City: Moscow | Zip code: 215502
Country: Russia
Your contact email address:
[email protected]


You can view your order status here: www.speedy-exchange.com/orderstatus.html

Changes to this order can be made here: www.speedy-exchange.com/orderchange.html

================================================
Thank you for your appreciation and for using Speedy-Exchange.com.
www.speedy-exchange.com


I have replaced the real prefix of my email address with xxxxxxxxxx but you can rest assured that it is not a real word like jambutty. So the first question is how did someone guess a random series of characters? Or what is more likely is that as I use that email address for registering with various sites, someone has passed it on, for a fee of course.

When you go to the speedy-exchange site to check the order status that you didn’t place the web page attempts to download a PaintShop Pro picture. It cannot be much of a picture at 1Kb but it is named ie0601e.wmf and that can only be a virus of some sort.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THAT FILE! Better still just trash the email if you get one like it or similar.

Margaret Pilkington 01-03-2006 15:21

Re: BEWARE an email like this.
 
Thanks for the warning Jambutty.

Ernie 01-03-2006 16:54

Re: BEWARE an email like this.
 
Beware of the entire website, I entered the URL into my browser and Norton 2002 found a trojan straight away.

SPUGGIE J 01-03-2006 21:09

Re: BEWARE an email like this.
 
Aint seen it yet so it might have hit my bulk folder which I delete every day.


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