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Tank863
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 7:14 pm    Post subject: Tankweb.net Advisory Reply with quote

There are times when malicious users send out emails portraying to be TANKWEB.NET staff. Please check your email headers to see if such email was routed from our server (mail.tankweb.net). Here is a copy of an actual fraudulent email I just receieved a moment ago... Please note, the emails contains the Win32/Bagle.K worm. This means the person sending the email below may well be infected by it.

Return-Path:
Received: from philou (ca-metz-18-7.w80-8.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.8.181.7])
by mail.tankweb.net
for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:31:03 -0500
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:28:34 +0100
To: tank@tankweb.net
Subject: Email account utilization warning.
From: staff@tankweb.net
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="--------oidatjbjhbkpfrrwcdfb"
X-NOD32Result: deleted
Parts/Attachments:
1 Shown 22 lines Text
2 Shown 15 lines Text
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Dear user, the management of Tankweb.net mailing system wants to let you know that,

Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access.

Pay attention on attached file.

Best wishes,
The Tankweb.net team
http://www.tankweb.net

Admin Note: Tankweb.net does not have an email address of staff@tankweb.net and since we do not offer @tankweb.net email accounts to our users.... you should just ignore this email... or forward it to me for proper handling
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thx tank. if i got an email from you i would have been vary suspicious!lol
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the heads up, Chris. That sucks that someone is doing that. Mad
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