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Re: EBAY and AMAZON
From: Robert Hajime Lanning <lanning () lanning cc>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:16:22 -0700
Not too long ago I received 3 phone calls, with a strong Indian accent and broken english, claiming to be a computer support firm that has noticed virus activities on my Windows computer. First time I told them I don't have any Windows machines. They then hung up. The second time, I asked them what IP they saw this from. They didn't know. Then they hung up. The third time, I told them I had 15 machines, and asked which one. They hung up again. The calls came from different Los Angeles area codes, but had to be VoIP. On 06/11/12 13:51, Blake Pfankuch wrote:
I have a spam pit email address which I monitor for trends to have
> a little bit of jump on the possible things users might touch at > work. I started seeing the amazon, ebay and paypal ones a few > weeks back. The other one I have started to see a lot of is the > "Free or cheaper home phone service through magic jack" ones. > Again as expected they link to some .ru domain and look just like > the normal sign up page. Also my handy dandy virtual machine was > instantly owned with malware just by loading the page. The VM > runs Windows 7 as a non administrative user, UAC cranked up and > IE9. Something like 10 installed apps showed up including > "Adobe Flash Player Latest."
The other cool one I have been seeing is along the lines of
> "How to better utilize your office phone system" or > "New Business Phone systems" with supposed links to > "popular new phone system trends". This one is rather crafty > as it has an embedded image which is a nice weblink to an > infected jpg. So you click show picture in outlook, or in your > browser and you get another installed piece of nastyware.
-- Mr. Flibble King of the Potato People
Current thread:
- re: EBAY and AMAZON Nick Olsen (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Scott Brim (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Cutler James R (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Bryan Irvine (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON goemon (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Kain, Rebecca (.) (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Blake Pfankuch (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Joel Esler (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Keith Medcalf (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Robert Hajime Lanning (Jun 12)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Rich Kulawiec (Jun 12)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Blake Pfankuch (Jun 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Hal Murray (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Keith Medcalf (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Jamie Bowden (Jun 12)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Michael R. Wayne (Jun 12)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Jamie Bowden (Jun 12)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Gary Buhrmaster (Jun 12)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Barry Shein (Jun 13)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Dave Hart (Jun 13)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Barry Shein (Jun 13)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Keith Medcalf (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Scott Brim (Jun 11)