Sunday, March 22, 2009

A surprising happiness to you!

There is a new fun virus or worm or email hack, whatever you want to call it.
In my Gmail account I received a message from my Yahoo email address. Here are the message contents.

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Dear friend:
I would like to introduce you a corporation which mainly sell electronic products.Now the company is doing sales promotion,and all the products are sold nearly at its cost price.What's more,they provide their customers the best service and products which is good in qulity and low in price.It is a good chance for shopping,so improve the shining hour.Its now or never! Regards!
The web address: www sulecn.com


There is a second message some people have recieved below.

Dear friend:I would like to introduce a good company who
trades mainly in electornic products.Now the company is under sales
promotion,all the products are sold nearly at its cost.They provide
the best service to customers,they provide you with original products
of good quality,and what is more,the price is a surprising happiness
to you!It is realy a good chance for shopping.just grasp the
opportunity,Now or never!

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Now I am not the safest surfer but I know my way around a virus or two. I don't usually put myself in harm's way. There isn't much to find on Google about this yet, the general concensus seems to be that it is an email password hack. This may be the case is it was in my Sent mail folder.

I scanned my computer using three different virus scans, spyware scan and changed my email passwords. Actually I changed all my passwords to be safe.

Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo accounts have all been attacked by this spam and some people have lost their contacts.

There are also messages on Yahoo and other forums that have a user asking if this particular website was a good place to buy electronics from, including a clickable link of course.
Here is a copy of that message.

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Hi, Does anybody here tried to make electronics purchases online in this web page ? http://www.sulecn.com/ coz i'm planning to buy something there but afraid of loosing my money because of internet fraud scams. Looking forward to your answers guys. A big thanks ahead!!!*****

This post is usually followed by a long line of people reporting that their email was hacked or a virus is sending out spam to their contact list.

Just beware. If and when I find the definitive answer to this stupid problem I will post here.