Threatening spam email
Posted April 21st, 2008 by peterAlthough we have read of these kind of emails circulating in other counties (USA – Europe etc) in the past few months, a short time ago today it was bought to our attention that they been received by a few clients that have received threatening email. At first glance, they do look very threatening and frightening, and the one example we were sent from a client contains the below
"Listen to me carefully, i don’t know what your name is, but i’ll find you and i’ll cripple you, because this is you who tempted her!!!
She has already gone to hospital, you’re next, this is evidence:"
A link to a website is contained under the paragraph – we don’t know what the link goes to and are not willing to test it, but suspect that it may try and install a virus or something nasty in your computer – even modern virus checkers miss them sometimes, so if you receive such an email via our mail servers, or to your xtra.co.nz (and others) please be sensible and don’t be tempted to click
We have stopped the emails from where the 12 that have been received to date came from, but we think there are going to be a wave of these over the next few weeks. Most likely they will contain a demand for money soon too.
If you do have the unfortunate occasion of receiving such emails – just delete them – they are of course just spam
7 Responses to “Threatening spam email”
April 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
the link opens up a window that shows a pornographic picture of a man and women. We got this at work today
April 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
You were brave !! – Thanks for letting us know
April 21st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Website has embedded downloader virus. Old virus that Norton picks up and cleans but a sneaky delivery of it.
Never click on a link from an unknown sender (and be cautious even from know senders).
April 21st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Thanks Peter,
I wasnt sure what to expect and when we saw what it was we closed it as fast as possible. Curiosity got the better of us.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Hi Peter
thanks for the email with the warning – it’s good to know that you are always on the ball.
Much appreciate the information
April 21st, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Received same email today. Nasty feeling when email starts with ‘Hello Gary’. I typed domain link address into browser rather than clicked email link, then typed extension. It tried to open a popup which Mcaffee stopped. Ran other anti virus programs afterwards, but all seems clean.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
So loz, what was the name of the downloader virus?
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