Scam alert

[sumamael]

I got an email with the following text:

Subject: EQWindows - Latest Beta

4/12/03
2.35a is attatched to this email. This version addresses the issue of the mouse locking in other windows while 1 is zoning. The method I am using has caused problems for EQW users in the past, primarily with sound. If you have new problems with this version set Multithreaded=FALSE in eqw.ini and post your experiences in the Bugs forum.

Keep in mind the EQW window switch hotkey currently doesn't work while zoning so you will have to use alt-tab to switch windows.

and a 196kb large zip file attachment claiming to be the newest version of the Eqwindows utility. (Same text as on the official site)

HOWEVER, this file's size is over 170k larger than the one you can download from the www.eqwindows.com (original site) so I'm pretty sure it's has a virus infection, probably aimed to steal your EQ username / password.

Why am I posting it here? Because the recipient list of the email starts with this board's moderators' emails and the highest postcount posters' emails.....

As a reminder, never, ever run any executable file you get in an email no matter where it came from if the security of your PC is important for you.

*Edit - made sticky. ~Lothay*

[Delfontes]

Did you ask the site admin before this warning?

It could also be larger because they decided to maybe have it the whole exe and not just an upgrade patch from that e-mail.

Don't use EQW myself, just looked like it may not have been a scam e-mail.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

I'm the 9th top poster on the boards with 353 total posts. I do not use EQWindows and got this. I did open it on a School Computer (I'm in college and greatly enjoy crashing my lab's camputers whenever I can) And there was no file that came up. So I asume it loaded a virus of somekind onto the computer. Just wanted to say DO NOT OPEN THIS!

[sumamael]

I never signed up to the EQW mailing list

Also if a so widely used utility's update email's recipient list is only like 40 people and half of them are frequent posters on the same message board it's pretty suspicius.

[Lilosh]

Haha, Can't get me! I don't list my email address.


They made have gotten some of the top 10, but not the top 1.


*grin*
-Lilosh

[Delfontes]

Ok, hehe, I'll check my e-mail and not open it when I get home .

One of the better scams if it is one, anyone tell the EQW guys about it?

Not that I care, hehe.

[sumamael]

Did post it on their message board.

[Delfontes]

Doesn't appear that that board is used much, no response to your warning whatsoever, still the last post on their board.

[Galathnor]

Funny but I got it also, and I don't have my email listed here except in one of my posts. So whoever it is must be a reader of the posts also.
Also I'm just a contributor so not that many posts.

[Morani]

Chances are pretty good that whoever it is used is sifter program that grabbed any/all emails from the popular sites.

I've not gotten it yet but I'll be keeping my eyes out for it. Thanks for the warning. Is it just me or does there seem to be a lot of scams recently?

[Unidin]

omg! can you pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease send it to

youare@aloser.com ?

howabout

iam@wastingyourbandwidth.com

or

thisis@gonnabounce.com

[Kirstin Thornhill]

Yeah, I got this also. Deleted it without opening the attached .zip file.

[kiztent]

Is it just me or does there seem to be a lot of scams recently?

It's just you. Unless you consider the first time I saw a "make money fast" e-mail 15 years ago to be recent.

[Lilosh]

Is it just me or does there seem to be a lot of scams recently?

It's just you. Unless you consider the first time I saw a "make money fast" e-mail 15 years ago to be recent.

But that really works!!! My name is Reginald Johnson, and I made 6 million dollars through absolutely NO WORK! I didn't believe it either, but IT REALLY WORKS!

Just send $5 via paypal, to SUCKER_SCAMMER@SCAM.COM , and when I have 100 responses , I will post my TOP SECRET , BUT PERFECTLY LEGAL SECRETS!

-Lilosh

*P.S. Don't send any money to that address, please. (In case someone was slow, and didnt figure it out, consider this a generic disclaimer)

[Unidin]

What about the country of Acabulu that needs you to put up the money for the money transfer, then they will shower you with riches!