[Coco] spoof e-mail "from coco3.com"

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 22 February 2010, Roger Taylor wrote:

>I'm not sure if anybody else got one of these but someone used my

>payment at coco3.com e-mail address and sent me the following message:

>

>To: <payment at coco3.com>

>Subject: A new settings file for the payment at coco3.com has just be released

>

>Dear use of the coco3.com mailing service!

>

>We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the

>mailing service your mailbox payment at coco3.com settings were changed.

>In order to apply the new set of settings open zip attached file.

>

>Best regards, coco3.com Technical Support.

>

>

>

>--------  end of fake e-mail -------

>

>The e-mail of course contained a dangerous .exe file.  I think it

>goes without saying that if anybody else gets one of these e-mails,

>it's not from me or the site, and do Not open any attachments.

>

>Because of the poor spelling, I can assume it is HexStar or a Russian

>bot again, but what do I know.

>

>Ok, has anybody else received an e-mail like the above?

>

Only about 20 of them so far, Roger.  The usual exe that will infect your 
winderz boxen.  They don't bother me as I just feed them to spamassassin for 
training. 

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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