Email Scam – subject: FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)

We just got an email for Jason Gale of the FBI telling me I have 4.1 million dollars at the airport that has my name on it, WOW and all I have to do to send an email to the bogus FBI email address to find out how to get this money. Well, do we [...]

SquirrelMail Scam

You have to know when you get an email that refers to you as Dear E-Mail User, that its not a real email to you. The scam this week looks like this: Dear E-Mail User Due to the package compromise of 1.4.11,1.4.12 and 1.4.13, we are forced to release 1.4.15 to ensure no confusions. While [...]

FedEx Customer Service Scam

This is a email scam about a FedEx package. Inside is a zip file “FedEx_Invoice_Copy_N44-134.exe”  and it has a folder called document_  the document_ folder has 30 blank text files and a few docx files. All of the files are 0 bytes in size. Don’t click on the zip file or exe in the zip [...]

Urgent notice from BBB

Received a complaint from the BBB. All I have to do is click on the link in the COMPLAINT REPORT and I will be on my way to fixing my BBB problem. Now I just need to download this complaint9984.pdf.exe to fix my complaint problem and wow that was easy, it’s all fixed now. This [...]

Western Union Scam – MTCN====4148545819

Great day in the morning. Western Union has $5000 dollars ready for me to pick up. All i have to do is email Western union at westernunionpaymentoffice67 @ yahoo dot com dot hk and give that guy all my banking info so he can send me my money. Well, we all know Western Union does [...]

Adobe Security Updates

Just got this one in an email today, Adobe Security Updates at adobe-updates.net (DO NOT VISIT malicious payload of malware )  Adobe are warning customers about a series of scam E-Mails claiming to offer a bogus update to it’s Adobe Reader software. The senders claim to be genuine Adobe Reader Support representatives in the E-Mail but [...]

The mystery of Duqu

Duqu is a sophisticated Trojan which seems to have been written by the same people who created the infamous Stuxnet worm. Its main purpose is to act as a backdoor into the system and facilitate the theft of private information. This is the main difference when compared to Stuxnet, which was created to conduct industrial [...]

Your ACH transaction

NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association has received reports that individuals and/or companies have received a fraudulent e-mail that has the appearance of having been sent from NACHA. See sample below. The ACH transfer (ID: 2929266749726), recently sent from your bank account (by you or any other person), was canceled by the Electronic Payments Association. [...]

American Airlines manager.id85359

Here we go, I got my FREE airline ticket in my email today and look, they would like me to open a zip file and click on the ticket.exe file. We all know by now never open a zip file or run a program from inside of a zip file unless you know who sent [...]

FOREIGN CONTRACTOR PAYMENT OFFICE

Great I won $5000 again! and all I have to do to get it is send them $75 and my bank info and well I think we know where this is going. Email scams are on the rise again. As many as 294 billion email are sent each and every day, so 294 billion messages [...]