Sophisticated spam from seller.0008@yahoo.com

[antowan]

Anybody been spoofed by this guy? My GF has been.

Her whole contact list!!!!

Sent sales ads seemingly from her gmail account...

Message reads:

Dear friends:
Welcome to join our company' member club . Everybody here can enjoy our products' member price. All customers can browse through our company's home page---- www.seller008.com> for latest information . Our products (notebook PC,digital camera,plasma and LCD TV,digital DV,Motos,phones,Mp3/4,and so on) all have low price and high quality in order to attract more new customers to cooperate with us . Hope here is your shopping heaven!
Please contact me via
e-mail: seller.0008@yahoo.com

 

[Big Kriss]

Sorry bud,but if she responded to that e-mail she deserved to get spammed !
That was soooo blatant !!The internetzzz is a scary place for the uninformed...

 

[Winga]

Agreed! Bad english = Chinese spammers. They seem to be overtaking the Russians and Nigerians!

Oh and if anyone get's an e-mail saying they won the UK lottery, don't bother I've already won it! About 4X over already

 

[Glordit]

seller.0008@yahoo.com
The Yahoo.com is a red flag, for me if I see it and do not know it - I delete it!

 

[Deenem]

I think he's saying someone logged onto his GF's gmail account and sent the email out to all her friends.

Won't get blocked as spam that way....

 

[AirWolf]

I've only seen this once before (a couple of years ago on my boss's pc) and it was virus related.

 

[Claymore]

Got the same from a friend on Gmail - I think his account was compromised.

 

[AirWolf]

1.3 Find Out if Your PC is Part of a Botnet

It is estimated than more than 50 million PCs around the world are now silently controlled by spammers and criminal gangs. These "zombie" PCs as they are called, are just normal PCs owned by Moms and Pops that have been taken over by malware secretly downloaded onto the PCs using web exploits, infected emails and more.

These zombies are organized in vast networks called botnets with each botnet owned and controlled remotely by different criminal groups. The most common use of botnets is sending spam.

Most zombie owners don't even know their PC is under the control of someone else. That's where this program from Trend Micro is useful:

"RUBotted is a free program that monitors your computer for suspicious activities and regularly checks with an online service to identify behavior associated with Bots. Upon discovering a potential infection, RUBotted prompts you to scan and clean your computer."

http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/rubotted

Found the above here: http://techsupportalert.com/issues/al_current.htm#Section_1.3

 

[eitai2001]

Ya ... I've "spammed" myself from my own e-mail address many times ... apparenly info@dig....addd....co.za sells replica watches and viagra ... who knew ...

 

[antowan]

Got the same from a friend on Gmail - I think his account was compromised.

Yup, the account was compromised because the SENT folder shows that email...

Somebody hacked her Gmail account.

Either way it is embarrassing because her entire contact list got the message showing her entire contact list to the world. Not good in a competitive work environment.

 

[antowan]

I think he's saying someone logged onto his GF's gmail account and sent the email out to all her friends.

Won't get blocked as spam that way....

Correct.