Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:55 am Post subject: Arent they quick!
Yesterday, a few hours after the Pope died, I received an email with the subject line: "BBC News Alert- The Pope has dead".
Now, the BBC may do some strange things, but sending news alerts to people who havent requested them isnt one of them.
Also, their grammer is usually good.
Hence, alarm bells started ringing!
At the same time, the phishing alarm (yes, Deepnet has one) started jumping up and down (well, flashing, actually).
(Wouldnt help them, as I dont have any personal finance information on computer, but at least the security systems worked.)
In fact, the email was supposed to open automatically (I have that function disabled) and behind the graphics was a virus / wporm / whatever, that trawled for info and sent it to a site.
It just shows how quick these crooks are at exploiting any opportunity.
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