Monday, July 27, 2015

New Look for an Old Scam- Your email has been accessed from unknown location

The following email is being sent to potential victims:

The blackout in the brackets after E-mail Service is a user id at an email account.  I suspect the hackers bought the email address from a reseller and the email belongs to someone in our community.

The link is unusual and is probably the way future "bad links" will be made.  It is a "tinyurl"  Tinyurl is a web site that changes a long internet address into a short one.  In this case, the url is http://tinyurl.com/q6ornxn  This is called "cloaking" when it is used by black hackers.   I can run an "unshortener" to get back the long url.  However, when I do for this url it says it is not recognized.  So this is not good at all.

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