Peaches Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Fake Outlook config scam aims to harvest loginsNew spin on social engineering also punts scarewareBy John Leyden , 3rd June 2009 11:19 GMT"Cybercrooks have come up with a new way to trick prospective marks into handing over login credentials or installing fake security (scareware) packages.The first of two similar batches of scam emails doing the rounds claim that users have a new message in Microsoft Outlook - which can supposedly only be seen after users reconfigure their settings. This might sound technically tricky but the dubious emails come complete with a handy link, which serves only to hand over email settings to internet hackers."The Register for full article - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/ou...ocial_eng_scam/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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