Re: Email Scam Uses Hurricane Katrina As Bait

[Guest guest]

All I can say, give to the charities you know! Never, never give to one

that is not established and familiar to you.

Most local TV stations have campaigns going. They are a good bet. Red

Cross also.

Lynda

At 10:00 AM 9/4/2005, you wrote:

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> > Dow Real-Time News for InvestorsSM

> > 3:13 p.m. 09/01/2005

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> > By Riva Richmond

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> > Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

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> > NEW YORK (Dow )--Cyberthieves joined looters

> > Thursday in the rush for illicit profit from

> > Hurricane Katrina.

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> > An email scam is circulating on the Internet

> > inviting recipients to visit a malicious Web site

> > for news of the storm's aftermath. The site displays

> > a news story and secretly tries to download hacker

> > programs onto victim PCs that could be part of an

> > identity-theft scheme.

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> > The site is laced with a program that attempts to

> > exploit flaws in Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Internet

> > Explorer browser revealed earlier this year to

> > install a variety of malicious programs, including a

> > Trojan horse called " Cgab " that provides full access

> > to victim PCs. Hackers typically use such power to

> > steal private information, such as financial account

> > numbers, and to send spam anonymously.

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> > " The hurricane is a dreadful natural disaster, and

> > it's sickening to think that hackers are prepared to

> > exploit the horrendous situation in an attempt to

> > break into computers for the purposes of spamming,

> > extortion and theft, " said Graham Cluley, senior

> > technology consultant for antivirus-software maker

> > Sophos Ltd., in an emailed statement.

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> > The body of the emails can vary, but all relate to

> > the disaster caused by the hurricane in New Orleans

> > and elsewhere in Louisiana and Mississippi. The Web

> > site shows a purported UPI wire service story

> > headlined " Katrina killed as many as 80 people. " The

> > emails' subject lines include: " Re: g8 Tropical

> > storm flooded New Orleans " and " Re: g7 80 percent of

> > our city underwater. " Ironically, the offending Web

> > page also includes a teaser for an article about the

> > recent Zotob email virus.

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> > High-profile disasters and news events are now

> > almost inevitably followed by Internet scams.

> > Indeed, the Katrina spam attack is nearly identical

> > to an Iraqi news email scam that began circulating

> > in early August, security company Websense Inc.

> > (WBSN) said. The company has also tracked several

> > hundred new Web sites requesting donations for

> > Hurricane Katrina relief, many of which it believes

> > are fraudulent.

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> > -By Riva Richmond, Dow Newswires;

> > 201-938-5670; riva.richmond@...

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