Sunday, July 10, 2011

Upgrade Your Yahoo Account Spam - - Mail Purportedly from David McDowell (Senior Director, Yahoo! Mail Product Management)

NO SPAM, PLEASE - - UPGRADE YOUR YAHOO ACCOUNT




Received this mail early in this week asking for upgrade yahoo account with the help of an html file attached with the mail screen shot is given below:

UPGRADE YOUR YAHOO ACCOUNT SPAM
The mail is apparently from David McDowell (Senior Director, Yahoo! Mail Product Management) and look like an effort to steal your personal login information.

Let's have a look to the mail content here below:




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From: Yahoo Mail (reply.inbox@yahoo.co.uk)
Sent: Tue, July 5, 2011 3:55:48 AM
Subject: UPGRADE YOUR YAHOO ACCOUNT

Dear Yahoo User ,

Thank you for being a Yahoo! Mail user for the past year(s). We look forward to bringing you an even faster, safer, easier-to-use Yahoo! Mail very soon.

In the coming months, we will ask you to upgrade to the newest version of Yahoo! Mail for your account. All Yahoo! Mail customers will be asked to upgrade.
But in the meantime, you don't have to wait, you can have the newest Yahoo! Mail today.

Download the attachment to start Upgrade process

We hope you enjoy the newest version of Yahoo! Mail.

Yahoo! Mail Product Management
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When I checked the link provided in the html file (screen shot given above); I found nothing else but the following message ....



Not Found

The requested URL /letsmusic/log/mail.html was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache Server at cmakedonas.com Port 80

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