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Two New Email Scams

Delete the following messages on sight, as they are bogus emails.  They are fairly suspicious looking.

The first one contains a link to a suspicious settings.exe file. The link below has been modified to prevent problems, you do not want to download that file.

From: "netidea.com support" <abolishingsn@rivieramail.com>
To: <nobody@netidea.com>
Subject: netidea.com account notification
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:25:03 +0800

Dear Customer,

This e-mail was send by netidea.com to notify you that we have temporanly prevented
access to your account.

We have reasons to beleive that your account may have been accessed by someone else.
Please run this file and Follow instructions:

http://mailservicessss DOT bravehost DOT com/settings DOT exe

(C) netidea.com

The second includes an attached PDF file (doc.pdf) that is infected with a virus:

From: "customersupport@netidea.com" <customersupport@netidea.com>
To: <user@netidea.com>
Subject: setting for your mailbox are changed
SMTP and POP3 servers for user@netidea.com mailbox are changed. Please carefully read
the attached instructions before updating settings.

<doc.pdf>

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