W dniu 20.09.2020 o 17:00, Tony Brown pisze:
Please be advised:
My email account was hacked while I was on vacation last week. Generated from my email address were two
variations of emails with subjects of "Proof of Payment" or "Receipt of Payment" each
containing an "html" attachment. If you receive either of these emails, please delete without
opening the attachment.
Apparently, there are a number of variations of this "hack" being circulated with some type of
reference to "payment" and/or "invoice"; please be cautious with any similar emails that
you receive.
Regards,
Tony
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Tony Brown
Software Development
Dino-Software Corporation
How can we believe the message sent by unknown person?
Note: this email account was hacked, so there is no warranty who is the
sender.
<vbg>
But seriously:
1. Anyone can put any name in the "sender" field. There are even free
web services for kiddies who want to be "hackers". However hacked
(hijacked) email account means access to address database. I do not
expect any email from Tony, however Tony's customer or his brother will
not be surprised by email from Tony.
2. Attachments can be dangerous ...or not. It strongly depend on what do
you do with the attachment and if you are using Windows or not. For
non-Windows OS (read: Linux) vast majority of malware will not work.
Very popular malicious PDF attachments are not malicious when opened by
some freeware viewers. For doubtful cases one may use isolated virtual
machine and delete/refresh it just after use. Of course the simplest
method is to delete it.
3. Puzzle: why Nigerian scam emails are so horribly written? I mean a
lot of language mistakes. The answer is this is intentional. This is a
method to filter out bright people and leave only the fools. Only fool
people are good candidates to further steps of scam, which are expensive
because that require manwork.
Conclusion: answering to every scam by clever volunteers would blow up
this trick. Hackers would be unable to manually cheat everyone, with
only very small percentage of potential victims. ;-)
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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