Email Hoaxes
Lotus Notes      
Subject: VIRUS ALERT Objective: ALERT LOTUS NOTES USERS OF POSSIBLE VIRUS Functionality/Application affected: Lotus Notes Business(es) affected: Those using Lotus Notes Mail Description of Issue: A malicious e-mail message containing a "Melissa"-type of script file has been identified by Computer Sciences Corporation affecting e-mail systems globally. If you read the message, additional messages could be issued from your computer to other recipients.
 
Microsoft/AOL E-Mail Tracking      
Hucksters are at it again; instead of potentially life-threatening Nigerian 419 scams disguised as money-laundering schemes, this one promises generous payments from Bill Gates, Microsoft, and AOL. All you have to do to is forward an email, sit back and collect a couple hundred bucks per email address - NOT!
 
MSN Hacker List      
MSN Hacker List
 
MSN Hotmail hoax      
Description: A hoax. The text of one such email follows: be down on november 15 2001. All people who have a hotmail account, please forward all your important mail to another account and save all your address book. You have to forward this mail to at least 20 people or your account will be closed 5 days after receiving the email. Thanks webmaster@hotmail.com
 
A Virus and a Hoax for Valentine's Day      
If you receive an e-card for Valentine's Day this year, make sure it's authentic and you know who the sender is before opening it, the FBI warns. Increasingly, e-card notices with spoofed addresses are being used to trick people into clicking on links that download malicious programs to their home or office computers.
 
Nigerian 419 schemes      
Before the popularity of email, Nigerian 419 scams were originally sent over fax machines and by snail mail. Those who have contacted the scammers are presented with many forged or official documents in an attempt to convince the victims that the promise of money is legit. Meantime, they claim fees must be paid and accounts must be setup. All this money is at the victim's expense. Loss of your own funds is the easy part. Some who have responded to Nigerian 419 scams have become victims of kidnapping and murder.
 
Free Nokia phone hoax      
The Grim Reality: Once again, the old adage proves true - 'If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.' There's no free phone and, further, there's not even a valid anna.swelan@nokia.com address.
 
Penny Brown      
Several variations of this email hoax exist, each claiming a child named Penny Brown is missing, from locations as diverse as Ontario, Texas, and South Carolina. Nearly identical versions of the hoax claim Kelsey Brooke Jones and C.J. Mineo Jr as the missing children. The hoaxes have circulated for a number of years.
 
Restoring Sulfnbk.exe      
SULFNBK.EXE is a utility shipped as part of the Windows 98 operating system that allows users to restore long file names - and is now the victim of a bogus virus warning. The hoax message urges users to search their systems for the presence of SULFNBK.EXE and, if found, delete it. Of course, it's a legitimate Win98 operating system file, so anyone running Windows 98 will find it. And many, it seems, have deleted it. Following are the steps to take to restore SULFNBK.EXE from your Windows 98 operating system CD. You will want to have your Windows 98 operating CD in the CD-ROM drive bay. If the program autoruns (launches), just click Exit.
 
Returned/Unable to Deliver      
Example of hoax email: There is a new virus going arround in the last couple of days!!! DO NOT open or even look at any mail that you get thar says: "Returned or Unable to Deliver" This virus will attach itself to your computer components and render them useless. Immediately delete any mail items that says this. AOL has said this is a very danderous virus, and there is NO remedy for it at this time, Please Be Careful, And forward to all your on-line friends A.S.A.P. Remember: Hoaxes are a waste of both time and money. Please don't forward them on to others. And if you are tempted to forward something just in case, read the article Toxic Excuses instead.
 
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