Spam? Phishing? Trojan?

[eboggs_jkvl]

I received an e-mail today notifying me on a PM:

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL! *************************** Dear eboggs_jkvl, You have received a new private message at EFILive Forum from ***, entitled "Important message from the forum administration!". To read the original version, respond to, or delete this message, you must log in here: http://forum.efilive.com/private.php This is the message that was sent: *************** Dear, z_28_0117;eboggs_jkvl;thespirit;87gmc;98redformula ! A virus alert was noticed on your computer. We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: *** ---------------------------------------------------- Sincerely, Forum Administration forum.efilive.com. *************** Again, please do not reply to this email. You must go to the following page to reply to this private message: http://forum.efilive.com/private.php All the best, EFILive Forum

What the hell is this? I have that message in my PM inbox. Elmer

[dissonance]

same here

[Ninety8C5]

Ditto!

[Chevy366]

I didn't get one , I want one .

[swingtan]

From the "whois" data....

Here's what we know about effectmeds.com:
- soooft@mail.ru is a contact on the whois record of 3 domains
- 1 registrar has maintained records for this domain since 2008-12-15
- This domain has changed name servers 6 times over 2 years.
- Hosted on 6 IP addresses over 2 years.
- View 18 ownership records archived since 2008-12-16 .
- Wiki article on Effectmeds.com
- 302 other web sites are hosted on this server.

So I'd say at the very least, it's SPAM for certain "enhancement" drugs, at the worst it's hosting malicious code. Needles to say, if the PM doesn't actually exist then you know it's a forged Email return address. I wouldn't be clicking on the site.....

Simon.

[GMPX]

You know the worst thing about these Spammers is now it's real people going through the registration process to then send all that crap, how can you stop that?

[Tordne]

I've implemented a process on the forum for posts, which is why (I don't think) any have been posted since. Unfortunately this doesn't apply to PM's.

[ScarabEpic22]

Thanks for doing that Tordne, Ive noticed spammer posts have significantly been reduced in the last few months.

I didnt get a PM fwiw.

[swingtan]

Over at LS1.com.au we have banned free Email addresses being used for signing up. this has stopped 99.9% of SPAMers being able to get access to the registered users. We also have a manual verification for all new users so we Mods can vet the new users. We make good use of http://www.stopforumspam.com/ to help as well.

Simon.

[GMPX]

What it will take is somebody successfully suing one of these companies who send this crap, that might scare off others.