Joe Harwell
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"I've never been bad." ........ Many, LA
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 7:47 am |
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The IRS warned Thursday of two fraudulent schemes that use the IRS's name in an attempt to get victims to install malicious Trojan horse software on their computers.
In the first scam, the e-mail claims to come from the IRS Criminal Investigation division. It says that the victim is under investigation for filing a false tax return. An attachment to the e-mail, which appears to be the IRS's complaint, actually installs malicious software that gives the criminals access to the victim's PC.
The second scam e-mail says a complaint about the victim's "business services" has been brought against them and advises that this can be arbitrated by the IRS.
The "complaint" attachment included in this scam is actually a new type of Trojan horse called Backdoor.Robofo, according to security vendor Symantec.
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, 05/31/07
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Joe in LA
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak & the strong; because, someday in life you will have been all of these". |
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