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New Targeted E-mail Attack Hits Business Execs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the careful-what-you-click-on dept.

Erik Larkin writes "The same scammers who have been sending out the faked but highly convincing BBB and IRS e-mails are now targeting named victims with a new variety of e-mail that looks like a business invoice. Our editor-in-chief was sent one here at PC World."

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  1. Re:Why is this sophisticated? by rucs_hack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, no it isn't easy to spot.

    Not if either of two conditions apply.

    1: You are an idiot with computers.
    2: The default 'do not show file extensions for known file types' is on for explorer.

    Whoever thought that last was a good plan should have been shot. Without file extensions visible, people can simply not realise that they are about to run an executable. Plus some wouldn't know all the many executable file extensions for windows anyway.