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Real spam email to malware site appears to come from the LinkedIn site.
An example is below.
From: LinkedIn Reminders <reminders-noreply@linkedin.attunes.co... [Add to Address Book]
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: There are a total of 1 messages awaiting your response
Date: Sep 30, 2012 5:51 AM
LinkedIn[/b]
REMINDERS
Invitation reminders:
• From linkedin.com (a person's name here)
PENDING MESSAGES
• There are a total of 1 messages awaiting your response. Visit your InBox.
Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings.
LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user
without your permission. � 2012, LinkedIn Corporation.
The above links are not active.
Avast does block this if you should click on the real links in the real emai with a"Malicious URL Detected" warning.
All links take you to hXXp://canadapharmacytoronto.com/ instead of to LinkedIn.
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If you're using Gmail, these messages are automatically placed in the spam folder.
It does not matter what email spam filter you are using be it what Gmail uses, what any other email program uses, or those who use independent email spam filters. Not everyone uses Gmail, thankfully, because there are better email services, IMHO. And, having a variety of email services is good for the business just as it is good to have more than one OS company, more than one CPU maker, more than one browser producer, more than one AV company, etc.
In my own email service, I have the spam filter set at medium so that it does not block some things I want to receive that would otherwise be blocked by the high setting. I like the ability to decide what email I want or do not want.
This one slipped through and I'm glad it did. This way, I could investigate it, warn LinkedIn about it as it could have come from a compromised LinkedIn account, and finally, warn others who are LinkedIn members who are either on this forum as members or as visitors. Not eveyone who visits this forum, Bob, are Avast users ... nor are all of them Gmail users and probably do not want to be.
By the way, what I sent to LinkedIn was the complete email without the obvious changes I made in my post here and I have already gotten a thank you from LinkedIn for notifying them about the problem account.
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