Fake swine flu emails
Another scam is circulating; this time it’s fake emails purporting to be from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The phony email claims it is about creating a profile for an H1N1 vaccination program. CNET reports:
The fake alert informs recipients that as part of a “State Vaccination H1N1 Program” they need to create a profile on the CDC Web site. The link in the e-mail goes to a fake CDC page where the visitor is assigned a temporary ID and a link to a vaccination profile that is actually an an executable file containing a copy of the Kryptik Trojan targeting Windows, according to an AppRiver blog post on Tuesday.
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