I got a rather humorous bit of spam in my inbox this morning:
“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 (SIC) 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^—-
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I did a quick search on “Evocash Administration Inc.” and came up with this:
Description
This is an Internet hoax that has been circulating via email. It tells its recipients that they have just received a worm virus that stays resident on the recipient’s motherboard and causes damage to their system.This is a hoax. Trend Micro advises that receivers ignore or delete this email, as it does not really cause any damage to the system.
So, I gotta wonder, exactly what was the purpose of this little piece of spam? Cruel hoax? Maybe someone is hella pissed off at “Evocash Administration Inc.” and was hoping I’d call to give a little piece of my mind. Or, perhaps the sender got what he wished for when I posted this little gem. One wonders.
