Beware Of The Bogus FTC Email

Posted Oct 31, 2007 | by Jason Faulkner  

Recently, there has been a tremendous influx of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) emails circulating. Normally I wouldn’t post something something of this nature, but it seems many people are falling into the trap.

This email basically says someone has complained you owe them more money and you will be investigated (blah blah blah). As you probably can tell by the way this tip is going, this is a bogus email. At the bottom there is a link to a “.doc” file which downloads a malicious file, a key-logger. Needless to say, this would be very bad to have on your system.

If you see this email, delete it immediately.

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2 Responses to “Beware Of The Bogus FTC Email”

  1. Thank you for the tip.

  2. Darron Dunlap says:

    Thanks PC Mech. I will send this to everyone in my address book. I recomend that everyone that reads this to do the same.

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