Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Ok so now people are giving away money in the form of cash grants.
Your need for greed is going to get you to respond to this diatribe.
Fondazion Di Vittorio
Fondazion DiVittorio, ITALY
http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it
GRANT AWARD DONATION !!
THE ITALIA FOUNDATION FOR BASIC RESEARCH.
The Italia Foundation for basic research
(http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it), would like to notify you that you have been chosen by the board of
trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for
your own personal,educational, and business development.The Italia
Foundation for basic research was conceived with the objective of human
growth,educational and scientific research, with a mind also for Community development.
In conjunction with the ECOWAS,UNO and the EU We are To celebrate the
30th anniversary program,We are giving out a yearly donation of US$
200,000.00 (Two hundred thousand Unitedstates dollars only) each to
100 lucky recipients. These specific Donations/Grants will be awarded
to 100 lucky international recipients worldwide; in different categories for their personal business development and enhancement of their educational plans. This is a yearly program, whichis a measure of universal development strategy.
Based on the random selection exercise of internet websites and
millions of supermarket cash invoices worldwide, you were selected
among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of ( $200,000.00
)Two hundred thousand dollars as charity donations/aid from the Italia
Foundation,ECOWAS, EU and the UNO in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament.(Note that all beneficiaries email addresses were selected randomly from over 100,000 internet websites or a shop’scash invoice around your area in which you might have purchased something from).
You are required to contact the Executive Secretary below, for
qualification documentation and processing of your claims. After
contacting our office, you will be given your donation pin number,which you will use in collecting the funds. Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers(N-222-6647,E-910-56) in all discussions.
Executive Sec. Mr.Onorio Rosati
Email:executivesecretary @live.com
mr.onorio_rosati:secretary.net
Following the mail you are advise to fill and return the required
detail as to enable us process your funds.
1. Full Names: 2. Residential Address:
3. Direct Phone No: 4. Fax Number:
5. Email address: 6. Qualification numbers
7. Sex: 8. Nationality:
9. Occupation: 10.Age:
Finally, all funds should be claimed by their respective
beneficiaries,no later than 20 days after notification. Failure to do
so will mean cancellation of that beneficiary and its donation will
then be reserved for next years recipients.
On behalf of the Board kindly, accept our warmest congratulations.
Regards.
MRS. PULLVIC LAURA SIDIGO
ACTION: Adopt Strategies 1, 4 and 5 you won’t receive such email
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Given that Nigeria and Benin are third world countries it amazes me that people have so much money that they need to shift using you and I as their only means.
If you respond to and/or get involved in such scams as this, then you deserve all you get.
Dear Friend.
I’m Mr. Louis Anton a building Contractor. As a contractor, I travel a lot. I am presently in Cotonou Benin Republic to complete a Contract. I have two companies I worked for in USA and AUSTRALIA that wants to pay me for a Contract I executed for them. I am therefore looking for someone who will Act as my receiving agent in USA and AUSTRALIA since I am presently out of the Country.
I therefore would like to know if you can be willing to work with me in This regards. I would like you to know that the money would be paid to you via your Bank account or via a certified Check I will be willing to offer you 15% of the total Amount received at any given time as your commission. If this is acceptable To you, kindly get back to me urgently. My private contact is (address @gmail.com)
You are to fill this information if you are interested about this offer.
1. Full Names
2. Home or Office Address
3. State:
4. City:
5. Zip code:
6. Home Number
7. Cell phone Number
8. Country
9. Occupation
10. Private Email.
Sincerely
Mr. Louis Anton.
N:B-BE INFORMED THAT THIS WILL NOT COST YOU ANYTHING, AS YOU DON’T HAVE TO SPEND ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL MONEY.
ACTION: Adopt strategy 3 and you won’t get these emails
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Ikea’s mail server has been sending out spam and phishing emails thanks to some lax security on their web site.
"Ikea’s problems were caused because the contact template on the firm’s home page was inadequately secured, allowing hackers to insert alternative email addresses in a contact form," said Geoff Sweeney, chief technology officer at Tier-3.
"This basically allowed anyone with a little technical knowledge to generate millions of phishing and/or spam messages from Ikea’s mail servers using a simple script."
The potential damage to the company’s reputation, and the possibility of email blacklisting, could be significant, according to the security expert.
ACTION: Ensure that your contact form is not a simple html form but a script based form. If possible use captcha security as an added facility.
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Tom is a great example of irresponsibility that is happening on Facebook
Well, I want to get more spam, so hopefully the spam harvesters will come by here and pick up this email address so that I can pick up spam. Currently I can’t use forwarded spam because it contains altered header information. So basically, this message is only to those spam robots out there. Spam please? spaminatorthegreat+myspc@gmail.com Yep.
What get’s me about air heads like Tom is that it’s not him that has to manage the spam and besides when it get’s all to much you just create another email.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Did you catch the subtlty of that headline?
Here it is again PayPaI Phishing Emails
See how they substituted a l with an I
Dear PayPal Customer,
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding your account.
Our system detected unusual charges to a credit card linked to your PayPal account.
Case ID Number: PP-406-699-000
For your protection, we have limited access to your account until additional security measures can be completed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
To secure your account and quickly restore full access on your account, we encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible by clicking the link below:
I won’t give you the rest but be assured PayPal won’t be sending you such an email.
ACTION: If you implement Strategy 3 emails such as this that get through any filter system you may have set up then there is no need to worry you just hit delete as the real PayPal emails are protected.
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Over the last few years surges in phishing and other online fraud attempts have coincided with the arrival of December’s credit card bills in the second and third weeks of January.
2008 sees the same thing happening.
"Phishers are getting better all the time at optimizing the relevancy factor of their attacks — analyzing human behaviors and interposing themselves credibly at the right moment to maximize their chances of successful fraud," said Andrew Klein, director of Email Security at SonicWALL.
"In the November to December gift-giving season, individuals who normally make only a few credit card purchases a month are suddenly doing multiple transactions. Not only is there a large volume, but people use different financial instruments and it’s just not easy to remember everything that they’ve bought, and how they paid for it. When people are uncertain they are vulnerable to trickery, which cyber criminals are counting on."
ACTION: Remembr that your bank, credit card or any financial intermediary will not send you an email asking you to confirm anything. If you need to attend to account maintenance do it via their web site not via a link in a supposedy "real" email.
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
It seems that the English Gentry are now looking to move funds out of their country in a similar manner to the Nigerians.
The following appeared without headers in a friend inbox over teh weekend.
Lady Angela Stirling. Manchester, United Kingdom.
My name is Lady Angela Stirling,i am a widow and i was diagnosed of having Thyroid Cancer.
Just recently my Doctor informed me that i have limited days to live due to the cancer ailment.
I have decide to donate the Six Million Pounds that my husband deposited in a Bank here in the United Kingdom for charity purpose.
Please get back using this email: xxx@xxx
You have a lovely day as i await response.
Your Faithfully
Lady Angela Stirling.
I could always do with an extra dollar or two but I wouldn’t say I was a charity
ACTION: Take the same action as Nigerian Scam emails and block all mail without headers.
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
I’ve been testing Gmail with a vengance in the last month and it just loves to dump Aweber and Autocontactor emails in the spam bin.
I canged my email address on 9 newsletters I subscribe to who sue these two systems, thinkign they cut through the spam trap issues, because of their "credibility".
Oops … every email sent by these "internationally recognised" marketers ended up in Gmail Spam. Not ONE got through as a "real live email"
So I’m keeping an eagle eye out on things … are you?
Do you bother or let the auto delete thing happen as Gmail does so nicely for you?
ACTION: If you use Gmail or other filter based process remember …. Filters don’t work as you have been led to believe.
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
SoftScan recently announced that with spam levels reaching 97.02% and viruses accounting for just 0.11%, less than 3% of all email scanned was legitimate in December 2007.
I’m not sure about you but here’s Decembers spam stats for me
- My 12 Spam Strategy Protected accounts = 1
- GMail Accounts - 2 protected accounts = 5
- Gmail Unprotected = 600
- FastMail - 3 accoutns unprotected = 20
So Gmail isn’t all it’s cracked up to be … if you don’t Spam Strategy Protect it
FastMail is better than my gut feeling said
My own addresses using the Spam Strategy Protection work as they should.
ACTION: Take the simple no fus method … apply the 7 Spam Strategies
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
SoftScan recently announced that with spam levels reaching 97.02% and viruses accounting for just 0.11%, less than 3% of all email scanned was legitimate in December 2007.
I’m not sure about you but here’s Decembers spam stats for me
- My 12 Spam Strategy Protected accounts = 1
- GMail Accounts - 2 protected accounts = 5
- Gmail Unprotected = 600
- FastMail - 3 accoutns unprotected = 20
So Gmail isn’t all it’s cracked up to be … if you don’t Spam Strategy Protect it
FastMail is better than my gut feeling said
My own addresses using the Spam Strategy Protection work as they should.
ACTION: Take the simple no fus method … apply the 7 Spam Strategies
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