Western Union Spam Delivers Keylogger
A new wave of spam claiming to be a money transfer notice from western union is delivering a nasty piece of malware-a keylogger. The email claims over $3,000 has been transferred to the recipient and includes a tracking number. The keylogger is contained in a Trojan posing as a transfer sheet attached to the email. When downloaded it captures personal information such as usernames and passwords and sends them to a hotpop.com address. The attack isn't very sophisticated-the attachment is an .exe file which most users know better than to open and most email clients block by default.
How are you doing today?
I write to inform you that we have already sent you $ 5,000.00 US dollars today through Western union as we have been given the mandate to transfer your full compensation payment of $1,800,000.00 USD via western union by this government.
I was calling your telephone number to give you the information through phone as there has been a lot of internet hackers lately but i could not reach you yesterday even this morning. Now, I decided to email you the MTCN and sender name so that you will pick up this $5,000.00 to enable us send another $5,000.00 by tomorrow. We will be sending you only $5,000.00 per day.
Call me at +234-703-207-5025 and do pick up this information and run to any western union outlet in your country to pick up this $5,000.00 and give me call back to send you another payment tomorrow.
Manager: John Foxwell
Telephone: +234-703-207-5025
Email: (w.unionpay@gmail.com)
Email me once you have picked up this $5,000.00 today. Here is the western union information to pick up the $5,000.00:
Sender’s Name: Peter Macin
Sender’s Address: 1 Mission Road Abuja, Nigeria MTCN : 709 182 5048
Question: Honest
Answer: Trust
Amount: $5,000.00
Thanks
Western Union Notification Dept (Nigeria)