Fake Child Protection E-mail Contains Trojan Horse
Tuesday 22 August 2006
Security experts Sophos are warning of a Trojan horse virus in e-mails claiming to be from a child protection organisation.
The fake e-mails claim that the recipient's e-mail address has been discovered on a child abuse web site, and asks for a donation to prove the recipient is not a client of the site.
The scam e-mail falsely claims to be from the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP). The real ASACP have published a warning about the e-mail on their web site:
www.asacp.org
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