WEB ADVICE
Social Engineering Attacks
Sony Ericsson Free Laptop Promotion
Hackers will attempt to gain sensitive or confidential information from companies by
placing calls to employees and pretending to be another employee. These types of
attacks can be effective in gaining usernames and passwords as well as other
sensitive information.
Train employees to use a "call-back" procedure to verify the distribution of any
sensitive information
IF one receives the email below do not fill in the form (http://web00000-team.3eeweb.com) it is a hacker attack. Share with your friends.
Also those email from people abroad claiming that they have money in an account and need a foreign account to transfer it to are usually scams trying to catch fools who think that they will have a large sum of money transferred into their accounts then they will share the booty with the person doing the transfer.
Sample of a hacker email that I received below:
From:
?Webmail Team <[email protected]>
To:
?
Subject:
?URGENT/PROTACT YOUR WEBMAIL FROM BEING CLOSED
Date:
?Monday, June 03, 2013 7:02 PM
This is to notify you that our technical team is currently working on your
webmail Server, and this process can close your account with us.
in order for your Webmail account not to be close you are required to revalidate
and update your mailbox within 48 hours. click and fill below.
http://web00000-team.3eeweb.com
and check your email inbox. We apologize for any inconvenience this process must
have cause you.
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.
Note: Incorrect information can lead to the suspension of your account
permanently.
Thanks.
Webmail Admin System Response.
Laptop
Sony Ericsson Free Laptop Promotion: A Hoax
Outline
Message claims that Ericsson will give away a free laptop computer to those who
send the message to 8 or more people.
Brief Analysis
The claims in the message are utter nonsense. You will NOT receive a free laptop
computer just for forwarding an email. The message is just a rehashed version of
an older hoax that falsely claimed that people could get free mobile phones just
for forwarding emails
As hoaxes go, this one is even more absurd than usual. The free products specified in the message are actually mobile phones not computers. Moreover, both the Ericsson T18 and the Ericsson R320 are older models that have now been discontinued. The following text from a previous Ericsson phone hoax suggests that some prankster has attempted to give new life to an old hoax by making some minor changes and substituting "free computer lap-tops" for "free mobile phones".
Our main competitor, Nokia, is giving free mobile phones away on the
Internet. Here at Ericsson we want to counter their offer. So we are giving our
newest WAP-phones away as well.
All you have to do, is to forward this message to 8 friends. After two weeks
delivery time, you will receive a Ericsson T18. If you forward it to 20 friends,
you will receive the brand new Ericsson R320 WAP-phone. Just remember to send a
copy to [email protected] - that is the only way we can see, that you
forwarded the message.
Back in 2006, Ericsson published a statement debunking these hoaxes on its
website:
Ericsson is not giving away free phones. The chain mail you have received is a
fraud and there is no person with the name of Anna Swelund working at Ericsson.
At Ericsson, we are constantly looking at new innovative ways to market
ourselves, chain e-mails are not one of them. We kindly ask you not to forward
the chain mail further.
Hoax Competition Email
12 May 2009
Sony Ericsson has been made aware of an online email campaign claiming that
Ericsson will give away a free laptop computer to users who forward the
promotional information. The same campaign includes a photograph of the Sony
Ericsson logo and mentions an Ericsson contact name and email number.
Sony Ericsson confirms that this email campaign is a hoax. In addition, Sony
Ericsson confirms that the Ericsson contact name does not exist.
All competitions and promotions involving Sony Ericsson are run through official
channels such as Sony Ericsson's website or Sony Ericsson's partners' websites.
Please be wary of any competition or promotion that appears to come from outside
of Sony Ericsson or Sony Ericsson's partners official channels. Examples of
these include via spam emails or SMS.
Please do not reply to or forward the email if you receive it.
Enter your email address to subscribe to the
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/subscription-options.shtml
Forwarded emails usually end up in my Trash folder but I couldn’t resist opening
this one. It’s too good too be true so I decided to investigate.
I found out that this email hoax has been circulating since 2000. This new hoax
email is almost the same as its predecessor except the former matches a deal
from its competitor Nokia. Next, there is no such Ericsson T18 or R320 laptops.
These are discontinued cellular phone models from Ericsson. And lastly, Ericsson
cellphones are now known as Sony Ericsson after a joint venture by the Japanese
consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications
company Ericsson to make mobile phones.
Sony Ericsson finally made a statement to end the email campaign.
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