A New Spam Scam

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     Just got a new scam that made it through the spam filter. This one looks like a delivery failure notification but it is from an email that you never sent. Wose still is that it has a semi legit link at the bottom to an article at Der Speigel. All the Kenyan email addresses on it suggest something nefarious though...  A Sample...

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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 06:02:53 GMT
Subject: The Whore Lived Like a German
Full Article:

 

Oddly the link was to a review of a movie about the death of a Muslim a woman. Not sure what the goal of this spam is really but it is a new one... I wouldn't suggest emailing any of these folks unless of course you want to mes with them...

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
could have been the result of a virus on someones computer where your e maill addy is stored... frightening!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

could have been the result of a virus on someones computer where your e maill addy is stored...

very likely someone using Outlook...

Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
very likely someone using Outlook...


about 2 years ago I was using outlook as well.... I received an e mail from myself...at a hotmail adress...from my private address... it included an attachment to my bank account and other personal links. It was sent out to everyone in my address book.
I now use Eudora, have a better virus scanner and have not have problems since.
Outlook Sucks!
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
very likely someone using Outlook...


I got something similar in my gmail account. I learned a long time ago that if I don't know who it's from or what it is, I shouldn't open it....
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
about 2 years ago I was using outlook as well.... I received an e mail from myself...at a hotmail adress...from my private address... it included an attachment to my bank account and other personal links. It was sent out to everyone in my address book.
I now use Eudora, have a better virus scanner and have not have problems since.
Outlook Sucks!


One way to help avoid this sort of exploitation is to create a dummy user on your system for your emailing. You would log on as the dummy user for any emailing. This user would be email only so if some exploit attempts to mine personal info it wouldn't find any as this user would only have email. All of your personal info would be stored under your regular user.

It won't halt resending malicious emails to everyone in your address book, but at least your sensitive data would be somewhat more protected.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use Outlook Express and have never had a problem with the program. I use OE simply because it is the only email client that handles Hotmail.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Actually, any email client can handle Hotmail, using something like Web2Pop.

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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i like incredimail
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Actually, any email client can handle Hotmail, using something like Web2Pop.


Not true. Oulook uses a special protocol to check Hotmail that can not be reproduced using any other email client.

Bichur - You do know that Incredimail has spyware in it right?
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
NO! say it ain't so!
What kind? Can I kill them?

Nothing was picked up by Spybot/adaware/MSBeta/or pestpatrol (before they changed)
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
any diff if free or paid?
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I am not sure if they is any difference if your using the free or paid versions. All I know is that it has been brought up many times on this site that Incredimail has spyware in it. Others would know more about this than I.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
sassafrassafrixxlefroam.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
#9 by kona0197
Monday, May 16, 2005



[kona0197]
Actually, any email client can handle Hotmail, using something like Web2Pop.


Not true. Oulook uses a special protocol to check Hotmail that can not be reproduced using any other email client.


No kidding? Really? That's funny, I use a small perl script to retrieve my email from hotmail for my linux email client Sylpheed-claws. Seems to work just fine. Fetches the emails and deletes them from the hotmail server. Link
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If you don't think Hotmail can be received by any other client than Outlook, please look here:

http://www.jmasoftware.com/english/download/addins.html

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Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
I use outlook express, with a spam blocker, firewall and a virus scanner also an ad and pop-up blocker, loaded and ready for bear and have not had spam, or a virus or spy/ad wear get thru all this for at least the last 3 years.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Happened To Me About 2 Months Ago. Always Looked Like a Daemon Delivery Failure.
Never Did Open Them Since I Knew They Weren't Legit. Forwarded Them To Yahoo As Spam, And After About 2 Weeks They Stopped ....
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I got one of those scams today asking me to verify my Amazon.com account with credit card info, etc. They even said a scan of a picture ID might be necessary.

Link looked legit until I did a mouse over. Not that I would have clicked on the link anyway. I would have just went directly to Amazon.com to see if they need anything from me.

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Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
yeah, i got one yesterday. It was a MAILER-DA.. one, like, saying I sent a message and it was returned. But the domain was not hotmail, so I deleted it.

ALSO: Anyone using hotmail, there are mayjor "Julie" e-mails pouring in a bunch of my hotmail accounts and other ppl's inboxes. MSN detects them as junk tho so thats good

I also got a "subscription failure" or "subscription complete" from loboco.com or something like that (a non-existing site).

Ahhhh spam, viruses, worms, trojans, adware, spyware, wat shall we do with you.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I get "important" mails all the time from banks, asking me to verify my account info, even though I've never done business with them.

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Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That spam you received comes from a new german virus based on the 'Sober' virus. It uses all contacts stored in Outlook Express on infected computer to send messages hostile to foreigners. I have a german email address on which I'm currently topping at 600 of virus mails per day... This reawakens old nordic genes that tell me to go get my axe and behead a few of the authors of those texts