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“I am wait your reply” (Carry on waiting)

By Ron 9 September 2008 under sendcube Rants

Spammers who send out viruses get better by the day. I have just received an email in my inbox from a supposed Mr Guadalupe Numbers who threatens to sue me if I do not open up the attached zip file like he instructed. This is social engineering at its best, and could potentially scare email users who are not familiar with the kind of tactics these spammers employ these days. Alert your friends and customers about this. Always beware of suspicious-looking attachments.

The actual content of the email in question is reproduced here, complete with the multiple exclamation marks and bad English.

Subject: I am wait your reply
From: Guadalupe Numbers <evkuwqepihlc@******.com>

To Whom It May Concern:

I am tired of receiving messages containing malicious computer programs (viruses) from your e-mail address!!!

If within 1-2 days you do not stop sending messages to my e-mail address, I will have to address this issue to the Police!…

Today I received a hard copy of your data logs from my Internet service provider. The copy contains your IP address, logs of sending malicious programs and your e-mail address details…

I am sending you the copy of the document containing your data and logs of sending malicious programs as the proof of your fault!!!!!!

You must print the document containing the list of your data and logs of sending malicious programs and pass it on to your Internet service provider with, so that they could find out why the viruses are sent from your computer to my e-mail address!!!!

Ask your Internet service provider to resolve this problem!!!!

Do this now!!!

Once again!!! If you don’t stop sending the letters, I will address to the Police and file a lawsuit against you!!!

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Comments On “I am wait your reply” (Carry on waiting)

  • I, TK would like to say...:

    I just talked to a user that received one of these emails this morning. Very interesting social engineering! The user even asked if we should open the file to see what it was :)

  • I, Tom would like to say...:

    We’ve received this in our office this morning as well.

    Does anyone know if the attachment is a virus? Two different people received it from two different e-mail addresses.

  • I, Richard would like to say...:

    I got this e-mail as well this morning. It was almost enough to trick me but not I resisted and then found these postings. Hopefully others will find this page before opening it as well.

  • I, Ivan would like to say...:

    I also recieved this email in one of our client’s offices. Fortunetly they checked with us before opening the attachment.

  • I, MC@highdesertcommunity.com would like to say...:

    i received this earlier this morning from a “Chang Estrada”… and to think i would actually run an .exe from a person accusing me of sending them viruses is hilarious.
    very funny though, i bet this probably got a lot of n00bs infected.

  • I, Amran would like to say...:

    Glad to hear you guys didn’t open it up. My anti-virus immediately prompted me when the email came in and usually such emails get deleted before I even bother looking at it, till Ron highlighted to me about it. Simply amazing.

  • I, Ron would like to say...:

    @TK @Tom: That’s really interesting because I was indeed tempted to open it up just to prove that it was indeed a virus. Well, I resisted. Otherwise this would most definitely be a case where curiosity really kills the cat!

    All said, this is exactly why from the outset, sendcube was designed without the function for attaching files to your email campaigns. Email etiquette aside, it’s just not worth the trouble if your attachments are mistakenly taken as suspicious viruses, causing your email campaigns to be marked as spam.

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