[WikiEN-l] Re: Grubby spam mail

Sat May 1 18:01:44 UTC 2004

In a professional weekly post I received yesterday, we were warned about 
such a message, which contains this type of text, plus a link the a web 
site. The post indicated that when we click on the link, a virus is 
automatically activated.

Arno M a écrit:
> Has anyone else been getting messages like the one
> below in their e-mail accounts?
> 
> "Just got this from CNN Osama Bin Laden has just been captured! A video
> and some pictures have been released. Goto the link below for pictures, 
> I will update the page with the video as soon as I can"
> 
> A link then is then given, which contains the
> expression God Bless America.
> 
> However, if you click on it, you'll get a Hungarian
> porn site showing pictures of silly young women with,
> well, I don't think that's condensed milk that's been
> splattered on their faces. 
> 
> The reason why I suspect a connection with this chat
> site is that it's the only place where my e-mail 
> address appears. Maybe someone who uses it got a virus? Alternately, some spammer found a way of bypassing the user-at-website format. 
> 
> BTW, the e-mail address where this message comes from 
> is phony. It supposedly comes from yahoo, but yahoo 
> says that the address is a spoof one.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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