[LINK] Upsurge in Australian Spam

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:28 AM 16/10/2012, Tom Worthington wrote:
>These were made up mostly of copies of three messages. Two claimed to be
>from Telstra BigPond (which I don't use), the first to say my credit
>card authorisation had failed and the second to confirm a Telstra
>Business Broadband Cancellation Order Acknowledgement. The third was
>supposed to be from PayPal Australia, asking me to update my profile.

I received these, too. My anti-virus picked them up because the 
attached files were trojans. They weren't just social engineering spam.
The other nasty is a Woolworths survey, also with virus problems.

Jan



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