'Important News About Your Bank Account', email from the 'FDIC'. Identity Theft Alert

Excite email ^ | 1/25/04 | Self

[eldoradude]

Watch out for this and don't get fooled, it's spreading like a worm.

[NYCVirago]

It sounds like libs doing mischief.

[eldoradude]

Don't get burned by this...

[eldoradude]

It sounds like libs doing mischief

Sort of like 'White Collar Crime for DUmmies'?

[clee1]

I wonder how many thousands of dumb@$$es this is gonna burn?

[mgstarr]

I've gottten 2 of these this weekend.

[MEG33]

I never ever got a chance at the Nigerian money windfall.I keep looking in my inbox.I may delete a good email but I never open one I don't really know.

[DMCA]

Why don't people install the patch for this?

OH! I forgot, Microsoft hasen't released one yet!

[JoJo Gunn]

PING!

Michael miserable failureMoore

[eldoradude]

I wonder how many thousands of dumb@$$es this is gonna burn?

Quite a few reasonably law abiding naifs are going to turn over whatever is asked of them. After all, the gooberment has worked hard to encourage a society of docile fools. I'm not surprised to see dirtbags taking advantage. I've emailed my friends...

[DMCA]

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=833786

The above link will take you to the Microsoft KB article describing the bug.

[eldoradude]

I never ever got a chance at the Nigerian money windfall.

It will be the Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) windfall next with Mugabe kicking the bucket soon (One can hope) in South Africa.

[Democrap]

John D. Hawke, Jr.

Comptroller of the Currency

LOL

I got this exact one except the senders address was deferent, and a second came telling me my accounts have been frozen with the same idea of going to a website to give up my information.

It was funny until I remembered people fall for this crap.

[Bogey78O]

It's not an OS issue. Email all the way.

[MEG33]

Off the subject a poster just used a great new word ...crapaganda..in honor of Democrat,Progressive,Socialists "speak"

[eldoradude]

It was funny until I remembered people fall for this crap.

Yeah, and it goes out on a weekend so the crooks have a couple days of free fishing. Man I would love to ZOT! the b@$tards!

[DMCA]

Since the application in question is built into the lowest levels of the OS and ties into quite a few other apps I would have to disagree. Plus this bug allows this sort of URL spoofing to be done rather easly.

[Choose Ye This Day]

How long until one of the Dem president wanna-be's claim this is true, that Homeland Security is denying FDIC coverage to MILLIONS of law-abiding citizens, creating fear and havoc...

It'll probably come up in the next debate.

[Cultural Jihad]

Not an OS issue? No, it's an Internet Explorer issue. Microsoft is listing all sorts of ways we can paste in java commands to test a webpage, but they really need to just fix this bug.

[eldoradude]

Al Sharpton or Howard Dean?