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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Skype phish message

I have been getting the following message through my skype account:

URGENT SYSTEM SCAN NOTIFICATION ! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY !!

http://www.updatezv.org/

For the link to become active, please click on 'Add to contacts' skype button or type it in manually into your web browser !

FULL DETAILS OF SCAN RESULT BELOW
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WINDOWS REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

ATTENTION ! Security Center has detected
malware on your computer !

Affected Software:

Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution / Virus Infection /
Unexpected shutdowns

Recommendation: Users running vulnerable version should install a repair utility immediately

Your system IS affected, download the patch from the address below !
Failure to do so may result in severe computer malfunction.

http://www.updatezv.org/

For the link to become active, please click on 'Add to contacts' skype button or type it in manually into your web browser!

I googled it and found the following as well as other warnings:

this is a spam message.

Messages stating you to have security issues and suggesting you to go to some security site are 99% fake.

Please ingore the message and report it in Skype as abuse.

We will then act on this user.

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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Phishy Ebay Email

If you get an email that looks like this:

Dear member,



eBay member, has indicated that they already paid for #160339521812.


Review payment details (deleted link)



Thank you,


eBay





The first thing you have to do is notice the problems with it. 
1.  Dear member.... Ebay will always use your actual membername.
2.  Ebay would never write such a short letter.
3.  Right click on the link and click properties... this will tell you the link leads to somewhere other than Ebay.
4.  Ebay has a large email footer with lots of disclaimers and such. 

The second thing you have to do is Not Click the Link.  If you think there is any validity to such an email, close the email, go to EBay and look at your account to see if there is an issue.




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