Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >>Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: >>> David H. Durgee wrote: >>>>Per FedEx web site: >>>> >>>>If you have received a fraudulent e-mail that claims to be from FedEx, >>>>you can report it by forwarding it to [email protected]. >>> >>> I'll be damned. My hunch is if they even act on it they'll likely just >>> contact the hosting company. >> >>The trouble with that statement is: there is no hosting company. These >>emails come mostly from trojanized users' computers. There is little >>that can be done. > > No, that's wrong. I get these FedEx/Facebook/<insert you bank here> > phishing mails too. Some with malware at the end of a link, some with > just a redirect. But always to some poor sucker's server. They are > mostly on hacked domains/servers who do have hosting providers you can > contact and report the links to and have them removed. I do this at > least once or twice a week.
The emails the OP is talking about do not have links to anyone's server. The malware payload is in the attached zip file. There is nobody to contact. See where William said: "..asking me to open the attached shipping label, which is a compressed file." It is, and if you extract the .exe file inside and send it to Virustotal.com, you'd see it is a trojan. No contact with any "hacked domain" is required to infect yourself. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
