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Earthquake of Bin Laden’s death video, photo Facebook phishing scam spreading like tsunami

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Now the Bin Laden virus is spreading like wildfire, feeding on people’s curiosity see more of his pictures and videos.

In one of the cases, Facebook is being used to speard the malicious text. In this case, the people get mail from real friends(who are already infected) to copy and paste a link to get Bin Laden video. Following this procedure ends up giving the access of your computer to hacker.

Other cases include downloading of “special software” to view video. This special software is again a malicious software intended to take control of your computer.

How to protect yourself ?

Solution is simple…Don’t get involved !!

* Do not open any links from unknown sources claiming to show photos or downloading videos.

* If you recieve any mails from your friends asking you to click any link, just stop and read twice. Is the writing style that of your friend or is it more generic style ? If in doubt, leave it. If your the curious type, then reply back to your friend asking him/her to confirm that this mail was sent by him/her.

* If you are infected or compromised, immediately send mail to all your contacts to avoid the same mistake. It may be possible, once infected, your ID may have been used to lure your friends into the same trap.

Tags: Osama Bin Laden, scam, phishing, video, photos, facebook

Thirdparty trying to register domains similar to mine – Chinese SCAM

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Today one of client recieved an email from on domain registration company in China that someone is trying to register domain names similar to mine and asking us if they should be allowed to register them.

The game is if we response that dont allow anyone to register the domain then the fake chinese company will ask us to register all the domains in different extensions. And the worst they will charge us extremely high rates. And even more they may save the credit card information and misuse it.

Below is the mail received by my client. I responsed by asking them not to allow anyone to register. I am waiting to see what will be the response.

Mail Reproduced

(If you are NOT President,please forward this to your President, because this is urgent.Thanks.)
Dear President,

We are the department of registration service in China. We have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on December 21,2010, One  company which self-styled “Goked Holding, Inc.”are applying to register”pristineorganics” as  brand name and domain names as below :

pristineorganics.asia
pristineorganics.cn
pristineorganics.com.cn
pristineorganics.com.hk
pristineorganics.com.tw
pristineorganics.hk
pristineorganics.in
pristineorganics.net.cn
pristineorganics.org.cn
pristineorganics.tw

After our initial examination, we found that the brand name applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and the applicatant is the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.

If your company has no relationships with that company nor do not authorized,please reply to us within 7 workdays,if we can’t get any information from yours over 7 workdays,we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Goked Holding, Inc.”.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Best Regards,

________________

Jesse  Wu
AD       Manager
[Tel]     0086-21-67222201
[Fax]    0086-21-67222202

If you ever receive any such email just ignore it.

tags: fraud Chinese domain registration, third party trying to register your domains, someone trying to register domains similar to mine