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Nigerian Scammers Hope To Cash In On Tsunami Tragedy
Jeremy L. Muncy
Staff Writer
2005-01-05
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A new fraudulent email has begun circling the Internet. It claims to be from an Asian charity helping the victims of the recent devastating Tsunami that hit South-East Asia.
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A member of an anti-scam forum has said, Nigerian scammers have sent out an email, originating from Lagos in Nigeria, claiming to be from a Singaporean charity that is involved with the relief effort. They ask that recipients send money by Western Union to help out the victims of the disaster.
The fraudulent email states: “DEAR SIR/MADAM
SIR WE WANT TO SAKE YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT FINANCIALY FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF THE DISSASTER FOR THE DISPLACED PEOPLE IN THE ASIA TSUNAMIS EARTHQUAKE ATTACK. WE ARE SLOID FOUNDATION A HUMANITARY AND NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION IN ASIA.
PLEASE WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT WITH AT LIST
100 DOLLAR UPWARD TO ASSIT MORE THAN 2,000,000 DISPLACED PEOPLE AND OVER 500,000 HOMELESS, AND over 33,000 poeple are dead and we need to assit the families of the dead people. WE NEEDED THE FUNDS TO HELP GET FOOD, MATERIALS, DRUGS, FUEL, ETC...
YOU CAN SEND YOUR DONATIONS TO ANY OF OUR CENTRES IN ASIA.all donations by cash should be send by western union money transfer.”
"When you send in your donation, send it by cheque or money order. That way you can trace it, you have a printed record of it and you also have something for tax purposes," said Sheila Charneski, with the BBB.
If you would like to make a donation, Google has a list of sites already set up to provide information and handle donations for victims throughout the region.
Skulls Cell Phone Virus Getting Resurrected With Skulls.D. A new variant of the Skulls virus, first discovered back in mid-November, has been discovered and is ready to make the rounds again.
The original virus killed applications and replaced their icons with a skull image. The new variant, Skulls.D, goes a little further… it shows a full-screen skull image when the phone is rebooted. The picture of the skull includes the text: "WARNING!!! Device Have been Attact By Virus".
F-Secure has said that their Mobile Anti-Virus was already "capable of detecting the Skulls.D with generic detection even before we got the first sample of this from a customer.
Skulls.D is a Trojan, so it doesn't spread further from affected cell phones.
Panda Software's Top 10 Viruses Of 2004. Panda Software has released it's list of the top ten most frequently detected viruses by it's Panda ActiveScan in 2004. The data provided by Panda Software's free, online scanner throughout 2004 has demonstrated that Downloader.GK was responsible for some 14 percent of all attacks.
The Downloader.GK Trojan doesn't spread of its own accord, but is downloaded onto computers when unsuspecting users visit certain web pages and accept the installation of a specific ActiveX control. Downloader.GK installs and runs two adware programs on the computers it infects.
The following conclusions can be drawn from the data collected by Panda ActiveScan during 2004:
| Virus | % Frequency | | Trj/Downloader.GK | 14% | | W32/Netsky.P.worm | 6.92% | | W32/Sasser.ftp | 4.97% | | W32/Gaobot.gen.worm | 4.31% | | Exploit/Mhtredir.gen | 4.22% | | W32/Netsky.D.worm | 3.98% | | Trj/Downloader.L | 3.56% | | Trj/Qhost.gen | 3.48% | | W32/Netsky.B.worm | 3.45% | | Trj/StartPage.FH | 3.34% |
About the Author:
Jeremy Muncy is the editor of http://www.SecurityProNews.com.
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