If you don’t respect your online identity, nobody else will and before long your in-box will rot and fall off. At least that’s what our mother told us. She also told us to eat our vegetables that we’d go blind if we forwarded email to ourselves.
We usually take what Mom says with a grain of salt.
A new variant of the Delivery Status Notification (Failure) – Virus is widely circulating that arrives with a completely random From: sender address and a subject line, such as:
From: ”wafersf25@resourcemining.com” <wafersf25@resourcemining.com>
Subject: The results of your email commandsFrom: ”hackingj@robe.riotinto.com” <hackingj@robe.riotinto.com>
Subject: The results of your email commandsFrom: “smirnoff9@royal-fiesta.com” <smirnoff9@royal-fiesta.com>
Subject: The results of your email commands
Regardless of the random and fictitious sender addresses, the emails are originating from previously infected personal computers from across the globe. A few widely diverse examples include:
A new spam campaign is circulating that is spoofing “WordPress” blog subscriptions.
Emails most commonly arrive as:
Subject: [WordPress.com] Activate http://stephen.wordpress.com/
From: WordPress.com <donotreply@wordpress.com>
Below is a screen shot of an example email:
Imagine how excited you’d be if you got an email notifying you that you won millions of dollars? Never mind that you never heard of this particular sweepstakes (lottery, promotional event, giveaway or whatever) and don’t remember entering. You can just let your excitement sweep all that aside. What’s important is that YOU WON and you’re going to get tons of money.
Really? People actually believe that they won a lottery they didn’t enter?
Sadly, yes.
Judging by how often we see this particular form of email fraud there’s no shortage of potential victims. As P.T. Barnum probably didn’t say: There’s a sucker born every minute.
