Current Status

This blog is not frequently updated because most case-by-case scam reports are now listed in subordinate blogs. At this point in time, most of my efforts are targeted at documenting employment scams in the Suckers Wanted blog.

2006-09-20

Hijack Alert: To you there has come a card from Postcard.com

This is another "Web Attacker" lure. I don't know for sure if it contains the latest and greatest "VML" vulnerability for Internet Explorer (for which there is as yet no patch), but it doesn't seem to. I don't have a sacrificial Windows system on which to test it, sadly. Anyhow, if you got an email like this and clicked the link, you'd better assume the worst: that some nefarious person now has complete remote control of your computer, and can monitor all that you do on it.

Happy birthday, dear [name]!

20/09/2006 14:23
You have got a postcard with congratulations from the company Post.com.
You can pick it up at http://[domain]/postcard45683.html

Postcard.com

URLs I've seen associated with this hijack:

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