Hacker Spam Fools Old School Friends

Blonde with pigtails infects the curious with a Trojan

[engine]

Hackers are attempting to infect PCs with malware using a 'long-lost female school friend' to lure gullible internet users, a security vendor has warned.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said that it is a sad state of affairs when cyber-criminals need little more than a picture of a blonde woman with pigtails to steal passwords from unwary internet users.

"The lonely, the randy or the just plain curious might be tempted to click on the link, but they risk falling straight into a trap set by hackers," he said.

Hacker Spam Fools Old School Friends [vnunet.com]

How sad is it that people get fooled by such messages? Don't they remember who they went to school with!

[Dabrowski]

I don't remember most of the people I was at school with, but a cute blonde who claimed to know me would be worth playing along with.

I would think something wasn't right though if she started asking for my banking details!

[SEOMike]

From the email:

I guess we went to high school together. Do you want to see what I look like now? Visit my home page then.

Come on. Really? Stuns me that people still fall for that. Wow. I guess it's attractive to guys hoping that she's a stripper now or something. A Google Image search produced no images of this "Ann Berns."

[lawman]

I'm not interested in a 57 year old stripper. :)

[Syzygy]

That's very funny, Lawman. Very funny indeed! :-)

Syzygy