U.S. Better Business Bureau Tangled in E-Mail Trojan Scheme

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Washington Post.

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The Better Business Bureau network was the target of a "spoofing" scam
yesterday in which thousands of businesses in the United States and Canada
received e-mails encouraging them to download what is thought to be a
computer virus.

The e-mails, using the name of the 95-year-old network of nonprofit groups
that looks into consumer complaints, told businesses that they were the
subject of a complaint and included a link to view related documents.
Clicking on the link, however, accessed the address book of an infected
computer and distributed the counterfeit e-mail to more recipients, said
Steve Cox, spokesman for the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

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More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR200702130
1173.html

- - ferg

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