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SPAM Scam – CNN.com, MSNBC, and FEDEX

Rob | August 19, 2008

We’ve been getting reports in of some really well crafted fake emails that are sure to make your life more interesting than you planned.

One that has gotten most people is a FEDEX email scam.  It tells you that you have an issue with a package you recently sent and gets you to install a piece of software on your computer that actually in a virus.  Not cute.  Here’s an article on it:
http://blog.mxlab.be/2008/08/09/fedex-tracking-number-trojan/

There are also a few labeled as if they are from CNN.com and also MSNBC.  They have fake news articles attached to them and try, again, to get you to install malicious software.

The CNN Message looks like this:

Fake CNN Message Screenshot

Web related articles below:

http://www.spywareremove.com/security/cnn-com-daily-top-10-email-contains-malware/

http://www.mxlogic.com/itsecurityblog/1/2008/08/Spam-Alert-Huge-Volumes-of-Fake-CNN-News-Updates.cfm

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/08/msnbc-cnn-hit-b.html

Have you seen any of these SPAM emails?

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