Email Scams Trying to Trick Unsuspecting Users
- Comments: 27
- Written on: April 6th, 2010
While it is certainly nothing new, yet another threat to your email security is floating around the internet.
This email made it through our formidable spam filters (as well as through Google’s filters) to find its way to my inbox.
Dear Customer,
This e-mail was send by schrockinnovations.com to notify you that we have temporanly prevented access to your account.
We have reasons to beleive that your account may have been accessed by someone else.
Please click on the following link (or copy & paste it into your web browser):
http://limpadoralimptec.com.br/instructions.exe
(C) schrockinnovations.com
As usual, the message is plagued with misspellings and the link (removed in my example) to the instructions.exe file would have attempted to infect my computer.
As a general rule, email system administrators do not send broadcast emails to users notifying them of an intrusion.
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- Comments: 27
Such mails are on the increase and in some cases, seem so genuine that it is heart breaking to trash them!
This has gotten crazy now! I’ve always gotten one or two per month,but now I’m getting three per week or more.Most of them seem to be coming through Yahoo! mail and I report every one,but now Y!mail abuse is coming up a failure notice.I think it’s because they’re overrun with abuse reports.
This Trojan may arrive on a system as a file attached to a spammed email message, or downloaded by an unsuspecting user when visiting malicious Web sites.
If it ain’t the bank (that i don’t even have an account with…) trying to get me to enter my password, or the daughter of some African despot that want to launder $8 million through my account, then it is the lotto telling me I’ve won (for the third time this week…..yawn)
Obviously people are getting caught out with these scams, so be double careful, because sooner or later you’ll be targeted by a seemingly legitimate mail!
it is so hard to train users not to trust anyone, its like a little kid that you have to tell to not talk to strangers.
Agreed. I’ve always thought of this stuff as an internet urban legend. So people actually fall for about anything if there’s a naked chic attached to it?
I get many spam messages on my main email and i keep sending them to the spam section.
The creation of online scammers, she’s trying to trick unsuspecting Internet users into helping the scammers break the online barriers that banks and e-mail services set up to thwart crooks.
There are a lot of people which don’t want to understand that even clicking on those spam messages are bad.
They are seeing the title and chick on it over and over again.
After years of being a net user, it seems amazing to me that anyone could actually fall for these scams. But if I think back to when I first got online and was new to the internet, I don’t think I’d have known any better. And these scams target the new users specifically I think.
Till then,
Jean
There are so many email scams out there it is hard to keep track. Some look legitimate, or are spoofed to do so. I just opened a spam email address to use for signing up for things accross the net. You know you will get tons of emails on the net wherever you sign up, so your best option is to have a personal email address and only give that out to your friends and family. And use the throwaway address for everything else.
I have certainly seen zillions of such mails and now I know how to differentiate them from genuine ones, but there will be many who can not. They are a big threat and something needs to be done about such sites.
Agreed,I’ve always thought of this stuff as an internet urban legend. So people actually fall for about anything if there’s a naked chic attached to it?
I have seen this a lot as well. The main thing that clues me in is the link. I have seen them from my bank and the links do match up. I have made it a habit to search the site on my own and not use links that are given v.i.a. email. I have also opened a new email as well to try and slow the spam.
I have ever received email from support@paypall.com. Do you see anything wrong? There is 2 ll at the back of the paypal and this is very tricky. Got to be careful everyone.
This Trojan may arrive on a system as a file attached to a spammed email message, or downloaded by an unsuspecting user when visiting malicious Web sites.
Really managing the fake mail task is such a frustrating task.
We should take some restrict steps to ban those type of users.
I’m too facing such problem dear. There’s lot of fake emails I’m getting daily and few of them showing me the daydream do become rich.
Please let me know the way to track such type of users.
That’s pretty crazy Thor, reading that sort of email almost makes me wonder if it is a competitors of yours that is doing that or somebody you know. Whoever it may be, its a shame that they have to resort to dirty tactics like that
That’s as low as a scam can get tbh…
it is so hard to train users not to trust anyone, its like a little kid that you have to tell to not talk to strangers.
I have never even heard about that website or is it just any website they want you to go to just to get you to click the url?
I definitely don’t receive as many email scams as I used to.. Have my spam filters improved, or perhaps GMail does a better job of preventing them?
Agreed,I’ve always thought of this stuff as an internet urban legend. So people actually fall for about anything if there’s a naked chic attached to it?
Such mails are on the increase and in some cases :/
I can’t understand why threads are generated on emails….?
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