REPORT SUMMARY
Date Reported
16th January 2004
Apparent Sender
Paypal
Subject
PAYPAL.COM NEW YEAR OFFER
Senders Address
(spoofed)
do_not_reply
@paypal.com
Content
text which
file attachment
which is actually
a Mimail virus
(see image)
Spoofed Web page/site?
NO
Web page/site
content
N/A
Web page/site origin
URL
N/A
Identity Theft method
the virus attachment opens a number of forged eBay web pages which
request personal and financial informationand then forwards that
on to the scammers
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PAYPAL.COM NEW YEAR OFFER - Email Scam with paypal.zip file attachment
16th January 2004
A particularly nasty Worm Virus will steal your
credit card details if you fall for this scam ...
This Paypal spoof email takes the form of a text message (see image below) and carries the subject line of PAYPAL.COM NEW YEAR OFFER. It also contains a file attachment named paypal.zip which you are asked to open in order to register for a New Year money give away. This New Year offer is of-course a complete hoax, but the file attachment is a very clever worm virus .....
The file attachment contains a variant of the Mimail mass mailing worm. This worm has been reported to open forged Paypal web style pages in windows which present the viewer with forms to provide Credit Card information including the PIN as well as name and address, SSN, etc. If information is provided and submitted in these forms, the worm stores them in file on yur computer and then sends them to a prepared email address for the perpetrators.
Distribution of the Mimail worm is rated as high by the antivirus software publishers, and given the many forms it has taken up until now, we expect to see many more of these email hoaxes. Please warn those around you, as the uninformed are most at risk. Building awareness is the main objective of this site.
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is very
common for these email scams to be redistributed at a
later date
with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake
page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of
these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one
and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from
the same apparent sender.
Take a good look at the following images, because this email scam may be coming to an inbox near you!
The Email ...
