Internet

The following 2 links are good for checking out any possible "Scams" or "Hoax's" that may have been brought to your attention.

ScamBusters

Internet ScamBusters is "The #1 publication on Internet Fraud"

Website: www.scambusters.org

or

Security Information Center

Latest Hoax Information

Website: www.f-secure.com

The following 2 hoaxes are examples

1 Hoax: Life is beautiful

We received this via e-mail from a friend / Computer Tech informing us about the hoax:

Jeanne,

This is from the Symantec site.....Please read:

Life is beautiful Hoax

Reported on: January 15, 2002
Last Updated on: September 17, 2002 08:18:39 PM

Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern.

Type: Hoax
 

Technical Details: This hoax was first circulated in Portuguese. English, French, Italian and German versions have also been recorded.

English

URGENT! VIRUS!

This information arrived this morning, from Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to everybody you know who accesses the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless email with a PowerPoint presentation
called "Life is beautiful.pps."

If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete
it immediately.

If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying: "It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful" Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, email and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS. UOL has already confirmed its dangerousness, and the antivirus Softs are not capable of destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself "life owner", and who aims to destroying domestic PCs and who also fights Microsoft in court! That’s why it comes disguised with extension pps. He fights in court for the Windows-XP patent.

MAKE A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.

Instead of mailing this to all of your friends find out more from Scam Busters & delete this message.

2 Hoax: "WTC Survivor"

Don't know if there is anything to this, but figured we can never be too careful.


VERY IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!

During the next several weeks be VERY cautious about opening or launching any e-mails that refer to the World Trade Center or 9/11 in any way regardless of who sent it. PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
 

For those that don't know, 'WTC' stands for the World Trade Center. This is very dangerous because people will open it right away, thinking it's a story relating to 9-11. Do not open "WTC Survivor"...It is a virus that will erase your whole "C" drive. It will come to you in the form of an E-mail from a familiar person.


I repeat, a friend sent it to me, but called and warned me before I opened it. He was not so lucky and now he can't even start his computer! Forward this to everyone in your address book. I would rather receive this 25 times than not at all. If you receive an email called "WTC Survivor" do not open it. Delete it right away! This virus removes all dynamic link libraries (.DLL files) from your computer.

Instead of mailing this to all of your friends find out more from Scam Busters & delete this message.

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