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Fast easy money.
All they have to do is find people stupid enough to install their program ignoring the warning when they open it, then convince to install it by providing their user name and password.
BTW, I've got great news. Check out this email I got today.
(oddly it looks almost the same as the other thousands that I get each month)
Beneficiary.
It is a profound gratitude communicating
with you through this medium. We
SUPER ENALOTTO International wish
to inform you that your email address with
Ticket Number: 5-9-25-30-76-81,
Serial number 2443-05, File reference number:
EG/069713160012 won prize fund of
Ђ515,810.00 Euros categorically
in our lottery program.
Please contact our FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER.
It also seems that I need to go enter my user name and password at my banking site with the url that isn't actually my banks URL based on today's email.
Also in today's email It would also seem that some relative of mine that I never knew left me millions.
What I'm saying is I don't see why this is news. Since day one it has been possible to write a program that does something besides what it says it does. At least with a Mac you first have to agree to install it after agreeing to give out your user name and password, kind of just like the daily phishing scams that I get. Unlike some other operating systems that seem to get infected just by visiting a website or opening up and email.
Wake me up when there is actually a Mac viruses threat.
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