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Security - Email Scams #1
Here are a couple of Email messages I recently received:
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Important Notify about your e-mail account
Dear user of e-mail server "Desaware.com",
Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.
For further details see the attach.
Best wishes,
The Desaware.com team
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E-mail account security warning
Dear user of Desaware.com,
Our antivirus software has detected a large ammount of viruses outgoing
from your email account, you may use our free anti-virus tool to clean up
your computer software.
For more information see the attached file.
Attached file is protected with the password for security reasons. Password is 18135.
Cheers,
The Desaware.com team
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The scary thing about these messages is that they look as if
they come from your own Email provider. Ok, maybe not exactly.
Your email provider can probably spell and construct correct
English sentences - but you can't count on attackers always having
poor English skills. So assume for a minute that these messages
were in perfect English. How could you tell that they are a scam?
Easy. Your email provider will never ask you to open an
attachment!
The only attachments that are safe to open are those that you
are expecting to receive either because you asked for them, or a
friend notified you that it's on its way through some non-email
based channel (like by phone or IM). Even so, be sure you have
active anti-virus even when opening the most trusted attachment.
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