Yup.. I know better.. never open an unsolicited attachment. yet there I was, mouse hovering over the attachment.. one click.. then.. no.
I thought it out.. and sure enough it was phony. Bet you ten to one the attachment was a virus. Glad I skipped the second click.. here’s their message.
Dear Customer,
Thank you for ordering from our internet shop. If you paid with a credit card, the charge on your statement will be from name of our shop.
This email is to confirm the receipt of your order. Please do not reply as this email was sent from our automated confirmation system.
Date : 08 Oct 2006 – 12:40 Order ID : ######## (removed)
Payment by Credit card
Product : Quantity : Price WJM-PSP – Sony VAIO SZ370 C2D T7200 : 1 : 2,449.99
Subtotal : 2,449.99 Shipping : 32.88 TOTAL : 2,482.87
Your Order Summary located in the attachment file ( self-extracting archive with “37679041.pdf” file ).
PDF (Portable Document Format) files are created by Adobe Acrobat software and can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not already have this viewer configured on a local drive, you may download it for free from Adobe’s Web site.
We will ship your order from the warehouse nearest to you that has your items in stock (NY, TN, UT & CA). We strive to ship all orders the same day, but please allow 24hrs for processing.
You will receive another email with tracking information soon.
We hope you enjoy your order! Thank you for shopping with us!
As Low As $2,100
C’mon dude, you’re a regularly contributing member of barnson.org who should know that the Sony Vaio SZ370 can be found for as little as $2,100 with free shipping.
$2,500 price is an automatic giveaway.
🙂
Believe it or not…
I’m the Linux and Security guru most places I go, and the other day *I* tried to open an attachment from someone I didn’t know. I thought it was a URL, but it was actually an attached PIF (Program Information File, a DOS command that was surely a virus).
The only thing that saved me?
I was running Linux 🙂
—
Matthew P. Barnson
To stick up for Windows…
Any antivirus program worth its salt nowadays automatically blocks you from opening .pif files unless you very specifically tell it not too.
Just to play Devil’s Advocate. 🙂