Hoax warning!!!

[akki]

Just to let you all know,

Spammers Target Parents with Kidnapping Hoax.
The avenues that spammers will explore to spread their malicious intentions seems to have no bounds.
In the following example a spammer tries to convince an unsuspecting parent that they have kidnapped the recipient’s child and that a ransom must be paid.
The spammer indicates that they have attached a photo of the child as proof but instead offers malware in the attachment.
In this example the spammer is trying to tug at the heart strings of parents to panic them into opening a malicious attachment.

 

[Christy]

thanks for the info. whew! they seem to try everything now eh?

 

[Legy C]

Nice one akki, better keep the eyes peeled

 

[davelegacy]

wats a fume?

 

[AndyC]

and how do you hijack a baby? Babies dont drive or fly planes last I checked.

 

[davelegacy]

Jump in its buggy and tell it to move over............. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[AndyC]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Legy C]

Did ye see there was people lost money by sending their account numbers to some crowd who said they had won the spanish lottery, the garda sugary candy said "be especially careful if you have never done the spanish lottery" . id say let the scammers keep the money if your that stupid.
Akki where did you find this "news", its probably the dude selling the turbo spirals in his spare time

 

[akki]

[quote author=Legy C link=topic=9448.msg112277#msg112277 date=1221053911]
Did ye see there was people lost money by sending their account numbers to some crowd who said they had won the spanish lottery, the garda sugary candy said "be especially careful if you have never done the spanish lottery" . id say let the scammers keep the money if your that stupid.
Akki where did you find this "news", its probably the dude selling the turbo spirals in his spare time
[/quote]

Yeah right... This information is just a fraction of the monthly spam news letter which I get from our Security Response team here in Symantec. This info is nothing well known at the current stage. I would not post old crap everyone has seen ages ago. This is something new which has been discovered just over the last 4 weeks.
You really don't wanna know, what is going on here in the Internet Security Department where I am working, buddy. I am not thinking of posting lousy "You have won the lottery" crap or just "I am Dr. Ahab Bugundi, son of the former Nigerian King Lui and have tenmillon Dollars for you" stuff.

I mean I just thought this warning is something important for all lads who have a kid and I am not thinking about babies only, rather kids in the age 6 and older which are not supervised all time.
You can imagine if you get an email like the one above and you are a bit shocked for the second. First thing you do is open the attachment. Bang... got the bloody trojan or whatever is attached.

There are other scams going on right now, but this one is something a normal computer user could be caught by easy enough.

I am not stupid and I deal with scumbags like the author of that sample up there on a daily basis, but even I have to think twice sometimes if I get some genuine looking stuff.

Don't be too sure that you can not be fooled.

Akki