EBAY and AMAZON

Tue Jun 12 20:16:22 UTC 2012

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.
>

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Mr. Flibble
King of the Potato People