Author: martin fierz
Date: 11:08:49 02/26/04
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On February 26, 2004 at 14:01:25, Stephen Ham wrote: >Dear John, > >I just received the following email, with attachment, from John Merlino. Since >you're the only John Merlino whom I know, I thought I'd better post this to you. > > > >Thanks for your registration. >( We say Sorry again, the first mail was delivered to an unknown mail address. >This was a bug in our mailing system! ) > >The amount of 239.- USD was deducted by your credit card. > >Welcome, >you can now visit more than 1200 very very hot web pages! >Your registration, pages and passwords are in the attachment. > >enjoy > > >His email address is: John.Merlino@smtp02.fields.gol.com and he sent this to my >work address, which is odd. That John Merlino didn't leave a name after writing >"enjoy." > >I don't recall trying to register anywhere and I certainly don't recall >authorizing any debit to my credit card for $239. The mention of "hot web pages" >sounds like porno. You're not in that business now, are you, John? ;-) Since >there's an attachment, this looks like a virus/worm. > >I'm guessing that it's a mere coincidence that the sender's name is the same as >yours. I plan to delete the email after you confirm that you didn't send it. > >Thanks in advance, John. > >All the very best, >Stephen Ham hi stephen, time to learn a bit about computer viruses for you :-) whenever you get email like this and it sounds wrong, type some of the exact words in the mail into google. for instance, i googled this: "The amount of 239.- USD was deducted by your credit card." and found http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sober_c.shtml (and many others). read it! cheers martin
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