Day: February 8, 2012

I’ve been receiving emails from what apper to be friends of mine.

These Emails are really coming from Poland and contain a link. There isn’t any consistent wording in the email, what is consistent is the Poland connection.

The wording in at least one of these emails was clever enough that I thought it had actually originated from one of my friends.

Thankfully I looked carefully at the URL and noticed it was in Poland. I’m a curious guy, since I’d  been getting quite a few of these things in the past week or so, I  opened the link in a protected environment on my computer.

The link redirects you to some Work from home scheme. Then sets your browser so that if you try to navigate away from the page a pop-up asks if you’re sure you want to walk away from the “Golden Opportunity“

At this point I figured SCAM then closed the whole damn mess. My antivirus didn’t twitch but that doesn’t necessarily mean there was no danger.

I haven’t checked into the validity of the actual work from home scheme but given that these emails have all the elements of a phishing attack I’d say beware.

It looks like these friends have all either been infected with some kind of worm or they’ve all had their email addresses captured and sold to someone.

Be careful when opening your email & Happy emailing.