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Apart from a spam email claiming ‘clear up your IR35 status in a click’, it is debatable whether there could be a scam more targeted at IT-businesses contractors. Aimed at the email accounts of PC users, a new “widespread” malware campaign is posing as B2B contracts from the likes of Google, Apple, Toyota and Procter & Gamble. “We drew up the contract taking into account those paragraphs you’d wanted,” the mail authored by ‘Apple’ says, referring to a severance contract, said to be attached. “Our legal experts made some recasts on the last page of the contract,” the familiar-sounding mail adds, and “if everything is ok we are prepared to pay for the first lot on Friday”. Maintaining the same semi-official tone, the recipient is invited to click on the file, entitled ‘New_Contract.zip,’ in order that they can then reply to “Apple Manager John Ledbetter.” Somewhat disappointingly for those expecting a payout from Apple, or any of the companies cited, the file contains no contractual details, just the malicious Trojan Invo-Zip. “Even if you weren’t involved in any business dealings with the above companies you might still be curious enough to open the attachment to see what it contains,” reflected Graham Cluley, of Sophos. “It is that curiosity which the cybercriminals are depending on in order to infect your computer, and potentially steal information, resources and money from you - so don’t make it easy for them.” Other companies whose names are being hijacked by the malicious programmers include General Electric, Starbucks, Southwest Airlines and FedEx.. Rather than looking for signs the documents are official, or mailing the 'contact' to say a contract was wrongly sent, recipients were advised to simply delete the message from their account. Dec 4, 2008 Email this article Printer friendly page Previous Page
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