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Jim Lanton rides a Trojan horse

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

A recent malware spam takes a new approach to hijacking your computer.
From: Internal Revenue Service [mailto:jim.lanton@irs.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:25 AM
To: User@CompanyName.com
Subject: Re: Company report for CompanyName
To : Firstname Lastname
The report is attached.
You need to complete the fields about CompanyName income.
Jim Lanton
IRS Fraud Department
© 2008 Internal Revenue Service All Rights Reserved.

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Tags: Fraud · spam

CNN reports about online scams

June 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments

A recent CNN article described various online scams, including fake lotteries and other 419 scams:
As one scam-watch site pointed out, lottery companies do not organize “promotional” lotteries, they advertise. A free “promotional” lottery that you only hear about if you win would only promote the lottery to a handful of customers. That doesn’t make any […]

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Tags: Fraud