Malicious DHL Email
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The spelling mistakes suggest 419 scam and the attachment will likely be phishing-related. Thanks for the heads up though.
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Getting bombared with these at work the last week or so, though they're stopped by our spam filter and av scanner
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Yeah I got one of these! Had a giggle at the spelling mistakes!
Because in Nigeria they can't spell and don't care either way because they know most British punters can't either and will click it blindly.
We get these all the time at work - and have been for a good few months.
There are ones supposedly from Amazon doing the rounds too.
You really would not believe how many people will open the attachment time after time after time (and each time with the Sophos alert popping up saying "DO NOT OPEN THIS ******G ATTACHMENT YOU DAFT BINT").
Another one we get quite a bit is the one that looks like an official MS alert suggesting the user performs the free scan due to a nasty SECURITY ALERT... Start Scan.. OH NOES YOUR COMPUTER IS RIDDLED WITH NASTY! Send us lots of dollar and our leet software will fix it. Bleh.
There are ones supposedly from Amazon doing the rounds too.
You really would not believe how many people will open the attachment time after time after time (and each time with the Sophos alert popping up saying "DO NOT OPEN THIS ******G ATTACHMENT YOU DAFT BINT").
Another one we get quite a bit is the one that looks like an official MS alert suggesting the user performs the free scan due to a nasty SECURITY ALERT... Start Scan.. OH NOES YOUR COMPUTER IS RIDDLED WITH NASTY! Send us lots of dollar and our leet software will fix it. Bleh.
What the....
do you work at a Dixons group telling your customers they need to build a new PC because they got a virus?
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I had one of them except my sisters boyfriend was at the computer as he has stayed over and I was at school. He won't admit he did anything but when I came home from school I was greeted with some new unheard of "security" software that said that all of my files were potentially hazardous.
Although I simply don't understand how people would fall for them though, I mean I'm not a huge computer nerd , and yet surely when you have some unknown "security" software you had never seen before saying that everything on your computer contains viruses you would perhaps wonder if it was the "security" software itself that is the problem.
Really when you think about it, it is more about common sense than how well you know computers.
in corporate/professional IT, "rebuilding" a machine means reimaging the hard-drive from a clean image or a fresh reinstall from scratch, depending on the situation.