Re: FN-FORUM: Fraudulent emails

date posted 26th May 2006 12:30

Digital Delirium wrote:
> Just to alert you all to a fraudulent e-mail circulating, claiming to be a
> hosting company...
> Following a flaudulent e-mail which I received yesterday, I forwarded it to
> Value Host, and got the following response :
>
> RE: Phishing Warning!!!
>
> ALERT: Someone is sending spam e-mail using our name (Valuehost)!
>
> LATEST UPDATES: http://www.valuehost.co.uk/noc/

Whilst it does seem to come from Valuehost and includes a genuine link
to their site, it's not a phishing attempt - the payload attached in a
zip file to the email demanding you login and clear a chargeback is
actually a trojan downloader (new variant) that may not yet be
recognised by your AV software.

If anyone sends you a .exe attached to an email, don't click it!
(you know it makes sense.)

;o)

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