today I got this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear user of Mindspring.com,
Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of
unauthorized access.
Advanced details can be found in attached file.
Attached file is protected with the password for security reasons.
Password is 16120.
Cheers,
The Mindspring.com team http://www.mindspring.com
And it had a nice little .zip attached called "readme.zip"
I didn't read it...
Christian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: clever virus attack (OT)
> Something new (for me) that I got yesterday was an eBay spoof asking you
to
> click on a link and "update" your personal info on eBay.
>
> What was new was that the text was mixed into a long string of garbage
with
> some sort of HTML formatting that only showed the intended message. SO
this:
>
> "duringnourgreguiarwupdatekandbverificationmofztheoaccounts,ywelcouidn'tt
> verifynyourpcurrentvinformation.weitheriyourginformationmhashchangedcorp
> itsiscincomplete.
>
> "aswauresult,eyourmaccessttofbidzorabuyloneebayahaslbeenirestricted.ctoxs
> tartbusingwebaybaccountgfully,xpieasehupdatesandjverifyoyoureinformation
> ibyzciicki!"
>
> Showed up as
>
> "During our regular update and verification of the account, we couldn't
> verify.... etc..."
>
> Seemed really odd (I only noticed the string of garbage when I highlighted
> the message to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I wonder why they bothered to
> encode the message that way - I doubt it anti-virus or even spam software
> somehow would block the unscrambled message...
>
> - MCC
>
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>
> Mark Cassino Photography
>
> Kalamazoo, MI
>
> http://www.markcassino.com
>
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>
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