November 1st, 2007
Beware of the busty blonde stripping scam
by: Sarah

A new scam is out to confuse the user into giving up passwords, this scam involves a beautiful blonde, some lingerie and a strip tease.  “The buxom, beautiful blonde who promises to remove her slinky scraps of lingerie,” every time you enter the jumbled letters next to her.  But beware it is a waste of time, she doesn’t get naked.  After you have gone through and you think she will be completely undressed after the last code entered, the program starts over and now it has captured several of your passwords.

The article called “A little striptease for your Web passwords,” on MSNBC says that the woman pops up once your Windows computer has been infected by a virus.

Trend Micro researchers say the scam appears to be isolated for now to spammers trying to register bogus e-mail addresses and flood chat rooms with unwanted pitches. But they worry schemes to infiltrate financial institutions could soon appear.

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Info: Posted November 1st, 2007  in Internet, Security, The Internet, Tracking


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