July 25, 2008

Invoice Spam Is Increasing

McAfee is reporting that the spammers are now using campaigns revolving around airline invoices. The executable they found is a new variant of the Spy-Agent.bw.

The messages may resemble the following, according to McAfee.

From: [name] [airline_name] Airlines Subject: Your order from {airlines} [number] or Subject: Online order for flight ticket [number] Body:

Hello,
Thank you for using our new service “Buy airplane ticket Online” on our website.
Your account has been created:

Your login: [characters]
Your password: [characters]

Your credit card has been charged for $[number in the $400 range]
We would like to remind you that whenever you order tickets on our website you get a discount of 10%!
Attached to this message is the purchase Invoice and the flight ticket.
To use your ticket, simply print it on a color printed, and you are set to take off for the journey!

Kind regards,
[name]
[airline]

Attachment: E-ticket_[number].zip (containing an executable, which may have a Word document icon).

[Invoice Spam Takes Flight]

Posted in Tech News by #!/usr/bin/geek at 2008-07-25 14:47 Eastern

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