You've Got Worms

 

It didn't take long for the next scam to come along.

Dear Customer,

Our robot has detected an abnormal activity from your IP adress
on sending e-mails. Probably it is connected with the last epidemic
of a worm which does not have official patches at the moment.

We recommend you to install this patch to remove worm files
and stop email sending, otherwise your account will be blocked.

Administrator

Just as with the Greetings Card Scam it links through an IP address to some nasty on the Internet.

I looked up one e-mail address and the results are shown.

Unknown domain: 67.158.42.211
[IPv4 whois information for 67.158.42.211 ]
[whois.arin.net]
OrgName: PrairieWave Telecommunications, Inc.
OrgID: PRAIR
Address: 5100 S Broadband Ln.
City: Sioux Falls
StateProv: SD
PostalCode: 57108
Country: US

As of eight o'clock this morning I've had 52 of the little bastards.

Titles of the e-mails include :-

Alert!
ATTN!
Malware Alert!
Spyware Alert!
Spyware Detected!
Trojan Alert!
Trojan Detected!
Virus Activity Detected!
Virus Alert!
Virus Detected!
Warning!
Worm Activity Detected!
Worm Alert!
Worm Detected!

The rules are with any e-mail from a sender that you don't know, then don't click on any links or attachments it contains.

Remember you are your own worst enemy.