08.16.06
Cock Knockery
Not sure how new this is, but I’m guessing it is fairly new since my mom gets literally thousands of e-mails a day and every scam/virus imaginable. She got a new one today that really freaked her out. She started getting several order confirmation e-mails from sites ranging from Amazon.com to ZipZoomFly.com (like Newegg). She called me up and at first I really thought her card was stolen. But things just weren’t adding up. Like why would a thief send confirmation e-mails to her? It would make sense if they got into her already made logins at these sites, but she doesn’t have any. She has never even heard of most of them. The FedEx tracking numbers are also invalid, so couldn’t see where they were supposedly being shipped to. And the real sloppy part was even though they are all from different stores, the order confirmation numbers were the same. She checked all of her banks and the charges weren’t in there, but she will be keeping an eye on it for the next few days.
So it sounds like their purpose is to scare the shit out of you so you are too blind-sided to be careful about the nasty little attachment. Wanting to figure out what the Hell is going on will override any precautions you would normally take. Which worked for her, that’s the first thing she did. Luckily she was on her Mac Mini and not her Windows laptop.
So let your relatives know. You’ll be on the phone with them one way or another anyway. 