Message from forum aministration

[Turin]

Hey there
Today I got this message, did anyone else got this? I was wondering cause I was more than a half year not online in dawnspire and now I got this:
Important message from the forum administration!
« Sent to: Turin on: Yesterday at 19:09:13 » Quote Reply Remove   

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Dear, Turin!

A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: http://security-tool2010.net/Turin
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Forum Administration dawnspire.tinyrocket.se.

[Nightmare]

Didn't get one and as you probably figured out it's a fake anyways.

[johan]

That should be fake. What's the senders address?

[Persus]

Could this have any relation to the problems that were experienced on the forum and web yesterday?

You could always come back maybe it was a sign.

[Turin]

^^


All in all it seems to be a fake mail was from member:   ForumTeam
He got no posts.

[Cos]

i got that same message too :O

[Sparrisen]

I didn't get any

[Mad-Martigan]

All in all it seems to be a fake mail was from member:   ForumTeam
He got no posts.

I didn't get an email like this... but I do remember seeing a person called "ForumTeam" under the newest member section.

In my line of work, I look into cases like this where people comit fraud and criminal activities on the internet (mainly distribution of viruses and spyware). A large number of cases are when people set up fake email accounts and/or websites and encourage people to input account details or download something they claim is virus or spyware protection - when infact it outsources to a trojan virus.

I suggest that the real Forum administrators ban the person's account (or delete it), Check the IP adress and registered e-mail and report it to the authorities.

And to those whom recieve this email: delete the message (prefably without opening it), and dont download or click on any links the email contains.

Hope this helps 

[johan]

He's been banned now.

[Sparrisen]

what's the point with spreading viruses anyhow, I never got that

[Bernhardt]

what's the point with spreading viruses anyhow, I never got that

Like a determinist would say: people making spreading viruses their cup of tea are the ones who have somehow come to know beforehand that they didn't get selected.

[Mad-Martigan]

what's the point with spreading viruses anyhow, I never got that

I've found that there are 3 likely reasons:

1) Financial Gain - getting people's account details etc
2) Personal Gain - like changing your grades or damaging the reputation of another company (through showing their security is rubbish)
3) Satisfaction - just being happy to know that you've managed to hack someone's security ... or to prove a point that you can do it