Do not follow instructions in bogus e-mails

April 2, 2007 by kb3ljm.

The ARRL is alerting members– and especially users of the ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service http://www.arrl.org/members-only/emailfwd.html — about bogus e-mails that claim to be from the “arrl.net user support team.” There is no such entity, and the messages do not originate with ARRL but appear to be coming from outside the US. Recipients should not follow the instructions in the e-mail, which reads, “We have received reports that your e-mail account has been used to send a large amount of unsolicited commercial email messages during this week. We suspect that your computer had been infected by a recent virus and now contains a hidden proxy server. We recommend you to follow our instructions in order to keep your computer safe.” Following the instructions will have the opposite effect, however, infecting your computer with the MyDoom Trojan worm and making it part of a spamming network. The League urges all members to invest in and use anti-virus software.

http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7337

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