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I checked my email early this morning as I usually do, and found an email that said it was from “Daily Top 10″, and the subject line said “CNN.com Daily Top 10″.

That’s odd I thought. Although I do visit CNN.com frequently, I didn’t remember signing up for anything to be sent to me. Being the suspicious person I am, I toggled my mouse on the link in the body of the copy. I noticed that down in the lower left corner of my window (where I can see where the link will take me), it had a strange email address ending in “.de” which is Germany. Huh?

Well, something just didn’t seem right, so of course I didn’t click. I immediately went to my top menu bar in Outlook Express, chose “messages” and then “block sender”. As it blocked this sender, it gave a foreign email address, definitely not CNN. Later in the day when I checked my email again, I found more emails with “CNN.com Daily Top 10″ in the subject line. Again blocked. Again, even more foreign email addresses.

Being the investigator I am, I googled “CNN.com Daily Top 10″ and found that, yes, it’s true, this is definitely a major spam incident… AND, it just came out yesterday, August 4th. It links you to a site hosting Malware. To read more, check out today’s featured article on Wordpress.com:
http://wordpress.com/tag/cnn-daily-top-10/ be sure to read the comments, some people are already hit with this Malware attack. Topix.com (a news website) also has an article about it.

Whatever you do, do not open these files and click on their links. In fact, never click on a link if you don’t trust the site it’s coming from. In this case it LOOKS like a trusted site because they’re masqueraded as a major news source. It you’re in doubt, always toggle your mouse over a link WITHOUT CLICKING and you should be able to see the web address you’ll be taken to at the bottom of your screen.

Block all emails that come into your inbox with this message and KEEP BLOCKING them. You may wonder why you’ve blocked the email, but still keep receiving them? That’s because they use different email addresses each time to send them to you. So, you’ll have to keep blocking them until this culprit is caught and stops sending them.

Please send this to everyone you know.

Treasure wisdom… For wisdom finds treasure - KC
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