Dialler Scams

You may like to read this:

neilherron.blogspot.com/2005/
02/investigation-this-man-wants-to-hit-bt.html

Fred

 

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:07:37 -0000, "Fred"

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www.neilherron.blogspot.com/2005/neilherron.blogspot.com/2005/

Sorry, but it was his own fault.

"This all began innocently about a year ago, when I downloaded a few
free tunes from a seemingly benign internet music site. Hidden inside
the download was a secret software program designed to hijack our modem
and run up my phone bill."

What music file ends with .EXE?

 

At one point, there was a "free porn viewer" called david.exe that,
when you executed it, disconnected your modem (almost no one had
broadband then) and reconnected you through a Canadian number that,
like one of those premium sex phone numbers with foreign numbers, was
billed you as if you had called Moldova. (a Romanian speaking country
in the former U.S.S.R.)

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission stopped the collection of
the difference between a call to Canada and a call to Moldova but the
victims still had to pay for long phone calls to Canada.

One issue seems to be that in XP, at least, a file can have an
extension "jpg" or "mp3" but have the signature of a Windows "Portable
Executable" and - if you run it in Windows, your MP3 or JPG handler
isn't called up - it is run AS A WINDOWS EXECUTABLE.

On Thursday and Saturday, I received spam with what claimed to be a
jpg image of a check deposited into my non-existent e-gold account
with the extension .jpg. It was, in fact, a Windows executable, a
version of the Goldrun trojan which phishes e-gold info.

Since it appears to have been sent on purpose by a customer of a
hosting company in Sta. Monica, California through the hosting
company, I forwarded it to the Los Angeles County District Attorney.
He didn't get OJ but...