Spam virus

[OBF]

These crack me up. Anyone else gotten these lately?


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Hello user of Yahoo.com e-mail server,

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 details see the attach.

For security reasons attached file is password protected. The
password is "55012".

Have a good day,
The Yahoo.com team http://www.yahoo.com
********


OR, another variation....


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Dear user, the management of Yahoo.com mailing system wants to let you know that, Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your account information.

For further details see the attach.

Attached file protected with the password for security reasons.
Password is 42846.

Cheers,
The Yahoo.com team http://www.yahoo.com
********


And people fall for this??? :(

[fweber73]

Yep. Got one over the weekend. The only difference being that the "Yahoo.com" portion was changed to the domain of my company e-mail.

[MR. GIBBERISH]

sometimes I hate technology, this is one of those times.

[pigpen65]

Originally posted by cmsubillsfan
sometimes I hate technology, this is one of those times.

It makes you wonder about the mutants who come up with this stuff. Couldn't something more productive be accomplished with the time?

[MidnightVoice]

Try installing a spam filter!!

[OBF]

Well, Yahoo is web-based, so a spam filter on my end wouldn't do any good. Yahoo does have them, but no filter is 100% foolproof.

[pigpen65]

For yahoo you're supposed to forward the email to spoof@yahoo.com

[OBF]

True. But, even then, someone will always find a way around the filters, especially when they are trying to deliver a virus. There is only so much that a mail host can do.