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  1. #1
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    * New breed of phishing?

    Received this email, I sure haven't ordered anything
    Dear Customer,

    Thank you for ordering from our internet shop. If you paid with a credit
    card, the charge on your statement will be from name of our shop.

    This email is to confirm the receipt of your order. Please do not reply
    as this email was sent from our automated confirmation system.

    Date : 08 Oct 2006 - 12:40
    Order ID : 37679041

    Payment by Credit card

    Product : Quantity : Price
    WJM-PSP - Sony VAIO SZ370 C2D T7200 : 1 : 2,449.99

    Subtotal : 2,449.99
    Shipping : 32.88
    TOTAL : 2,482.87

    Your Order Summary located in the attachment file ( self-extracting
    archive with "37679041.pdf" file ).

    PDF (Portable Document Format) files are created by Adobe Acrobat
    software and can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
    If you do not already have this viewer configured on a local drive, you
    may download it for free from Adobe's Web site.

    We will ship your order from the warehouse nearest to you that has your
    items in stock (NY, TN, UT & CA). We strive to ship all orders the same
    day, but please allow 24hrs for processing.

    You will receive another email with tracking information soon.

    We hope you enjoy your order! Thank you for shopping with us!
    The PDF is in zip format 37679041.pdf.zip

  2. #2
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    I have seen something similar before, where it also asked clients to login and give their credit card number if the order was incorrect......

    Looks more like an attempt to distribute a virus though

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    don't click on the attachment. don't try to unzip it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CD Burnt
    don't click on the attachment. don't try to unzip it.
    Really???????

    I ain't quite that silly yet

    I know I haven't ordered anything and $US2,482.87 is a bit out of my budget.

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    I had a paypal/ebay one the other night that included my FULL name... I was actually fooled until I started reading it... the first mis-spelled word gave it away... plus, the "return" email was from .jp. ... but they had my ebay name and my full name.
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    hm... share the zip file, maybe the phisher left traces as to where the toy will call home and we can have some fun with him
    Warning: include('signature') [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in eval'd code on line 38
    Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'signature' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in eval'd code on line 38

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    I got one like this a while back, but in the product description was "Brand New Nokia Cell Phone". Not very likely to have that in a receipt. Good social engineering though; makes you wonder how many they snag with this.

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    Yes, these phishers are getting sneakier and sneakier.

    I got a similar email last week, and had to check my online banking to make sure noone purchased what was listed on my cc.
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    It's good attempt, new idea..but the concept itself is still the same..those phishers still need to be more creative to actually fool all the people..

    I wonder if someone actually opened that file even though it's said everywhere on the net not to open attachments from people you don't know
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    If people didn't do it, they wouldn't send it.
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    bah these phishers are amatuers. it's a good thing i'm a nice person, otherwise i'd be devious as hell..
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    Yea I've got a bunch of those emails...
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    I'll take two!!
    I havent seen this method yet but are seeing different methods all the time and one got my eBay account
    I dont know how it happened but I hurry and changed all my passwords on everything and then reformated.
    Dave

  14. #14
    Quote Originally Posted by CD Burnt
    don't click on the attachment. don't try to unzip it.
    Haha, really?

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    I don't think it's phishing, because I don't see a link to a website. Of course it's possible that the attached virus might be used by phishers to make your computer into a spam zombie.
    If I get an email virus I do try to get the person with an infected virus notified. To do this I have to notify the abuse department of the sender's ISP. With complete headers displayed I will copy the message and paste it into a message with subject line "Text and headers of virus spam". ISP can be identified from DNS numbers in the header by using http://www.arin.net/whois
    If it refers me to APNIC, LACNIC, RIPE, or AfriNIC, ARIN has links to their whois.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anon-e-mouse
    Really???????

    I ain't quite that silly yet

    I know I haven't ordered anything and $US2,482.87 is a bit out of my budget.
    I would have opened it with my mac. I am curious to see what is in there. These emails are getting very smart.

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    I would be glad to take a look at it for you if you want.. (gotta love vmware )

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    Could you give me the attachment? I'd like to check it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mohamoud
    I would have opened it with my mac. I am curious to see what is in there. These emails are getting very smart.
    *drools over Macs*

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    Quote Originally Posted by joshcrick
    *drools over Macs*
    Most do.

    j/k

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    I googled the file name and found a heap of results for it. This pretty much sums it up.

    http://de.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...virus_k=140736

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    I just got this too
    Big things coming soon

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    Dont worry Jan,just a scam....

    Your way too smart for that

    God bless you





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