I received an email from a contact which said he had a private message for me.
The email invited me to click on a 'private message' link.
Foolishly, I did, which took me to a screen asking me to log in to my hotmail account.
Brain clicked back into gear at this point and I bailed out, although I had to force quit the browser to do it.
A google of the obvious shows there is a virus kicking about which takes the gullible to a porn site and sends the same email to all the contacts in the gullible's address book.
I'm reasonably confident I quit in time because the viral emails apparently appear in the 'sent items' folder and there are none in mine...so far. :)
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I've had a couple of scams this week:
A payment of 29,12 gbp was made from your PayPal account to Facebook Ireland, Ltd. for zynga poker chips.
If you don't want to authorize this purchase, login as soon as possible to confirm your account ownership by entering the financial information requested.
We will cancel the payment and you will receive your refund.
Request Refund
Your patience and efforts increase security for our entire community of users.
Paypal Payments Department.
And:
Dear customer,
RBC Bank is checking on sucurity validation
and we discover that your account need to be verify.
for this reason you are advice to confirm you account details.
Follow this link to confirm your details
Online Banking Management
RBC Bank Security.
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Dear Scumbag, whilst you were trying to access my details, my bot discovered your i.p and home address, and sent a very insulting email to the head of Nigerian Mafia in your town.
have a good day!
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Hotmail private message scam - Dog
