Monday, September 08, 2003

BEWARE. NEWEST HOAX/SCAM BY SPAM. BEWARE
No matter how experienced you are, this one might be scary. At least it will be for most everyone but my nephew. He never gets upset by such things.

A copy of the latest one to come in my email is produced below. It came in an hour ago, but something seemed suspicious about it when I noticed their telephone number #767 (area code) at the bottom. They'd be facing a big law suit, so either it had to be someone else's number they wished to make trouble for, or there must be some other reason behind it.

Why pull such a dirty trick and then tell them where to locate you? I called Information and the Operator finally came up with the source for the #767 area code, the Caribbean island of Dominica, a place where they can most likely charge you $25 or more per minute, and before you're aware of it, they've hit you up for hundreds of dollars.

They've used other ruses in the past. DO NOT DIAL A #767 NUMBER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

Below is the message in its entirely, so read it carefully:


"GOT YOU"
If you were dumb enough to open this email then you will find a WORM has executed itself through your mailbox
and by the time you read this into your hard-drive. This is PAYBACK for the Virus you disguised in the email you sent
to us recently which destroyed our hard-drive and back-up system. This costs us thousands of dollars and we lost a lot
of irreplaceable files on our system.

Now it's your turn to have your computer infected. This WORM it is undetectable by AntiVirus software and it will drive your computer crazy because it's always hiding and causing havoc in your system. Using your computer recovery disks will not remove the problem cause it still stays on your computers Motherboard. This will proabably cost you a new computer and I sincerely hope this teaches you a lesson not to send people
nasty viruses again.

Evocash Administration Inc.
Phone: +1 767 4499922
Fax: +1 767 4499922



----^+Start^=Auto^Execute+^WORM^---------
----^+Start^=Auto^Execute+^WORM^-------------
----^+Start^=Auto^Execute+^WORM^---------
----^+Start^=Auto^Execute+^WORM^---------
----^+Start^=Auto^Execute+^WORM^---------


Some of you may have seen it before, but I've made a number of calls and this is a new one even to my IPS Service. DO NOT CALL AND DO NOT FAX THEM. That's what they want from you. Imagine the teen-agers who will call and fight them, then see their parents get hit with a huge bill? It can be humongous, and after the telephone company has paid these crooks, they won't want to refund a nickel to you. The crooks can make off with hundreds of thousands, even millions, in a few weeks time.

Again, alert your local newspapers. Or cut and paste this Site: www.yeoldecodger.com

THE SECOND VERSION, TO FAMILIES OF MEN & WOMEN SERVING OVERSEAS!
While I was talking to the operator, he told me that there is a second version of this one from Dominica, but this one leaves a message at the homes of men and women serving in Afghanistan or Iraq, and tells them that it is about their family member overseas and that it is important. Many, if not all, call back immediately, and after dragging them through endless delays, they've run up a tremendous telephone bill.

Notify your friends by email, and notify your local newspaper to post warnings as well. It's not bad enough with all the Scams originating in Nigeria, and elsewhere in Africa, but now this one. There are evil people around, crooks, liars and cheats who don't care a thing about the damage they do to innocent people all around the globe.

Cut and paste the URL: http://www.yeoldecodger.com

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