November 21, 2007 at 12:09 am
· Filed under Spam
This is a very popular format for the Bank of America spam email. The spammers are trying to lure you into clicking on a link to take to Bank of America’s online banking. The link you are actually clicking on which as shown in the picture of the email below is not exactly a “Click here to sign in to Bank of America Online Banking”
The link actually goes to a Click here to Sign in <h t t p ://w w w . stu d iora .ru/ boa /index.htm>Â to Online Banking to reactivate your Bank account now.
Note: The URL above has spaces added
The content of the email is as follows
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November 20, 2007 at 11:54 pm
· Filed under Spam
Another one of the Pay Pal fraud emails floating around. The PayPal fraud email has a subject line of “Message from support, please confirm your information!”
The spammer doesn’t even try to obfuscate their email address with the reply email going to a @gmail.com address. Following is the content of that Pay Pal Fraud email which tries to lure a potential PayPal customer into clicking the link in the email which is a spoof of the PayPal website. Once you enter your username and password, you just gave away your PayPal account to the fraudster.
Pay Pal Fraud Email content
Dear PayPal Member,
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.We requested information from you for the following reason:
We recently received a report of unauthorized credit card use associated with this account. As a precaution, we have limited access to your PayPal account in order to protect against future unauthorized transactions.
Case ID Number: PP-392-735-806
This is a reminder to log in to PayPal as soon as possible.
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November 4, 2007 at 12:07 pm
· Filed under Spyware
If you are plagued with the annoying pop-up windows which say “Powered by Zedo”, I wrote an article on root777.com, describing in detail how to remove these Powered by Zedo popups.
These powered by zedo ad popups would usually launch in Internet Explorer or your default browser which might be Firefox and open up advertisements linking to auctions on Ebay or open up other advertising sites. This spyware also tracks your browser history. So say, you have just been to nfl.com, the spyware would launch a site relating to football.
Click here to go to the article on how to remove powered by zedo popups
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