Just arrived: an email announcing the “the launching of a State Vaccination H1N1 Program.”
It commands: “you need to create your personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Profile on the Centers for Disease Control website.” Purporting to come from CDC in Atlanta <Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <h1n1@cdcdelivery.gov>, mine actually came from
Peru.
It’s phishing. Trash it without opening the attachment that asks you to, “create your Personal H1N1 Vaccination Profile” by clicking a link that opens a Trojan horse program.
Here’s what the email looks like:
Here’s what snopes.com wrote today:
I don’t actually think that anyone who reads this blog would’ve fallen for an email written in fifth-grade English, but….
One Comment on “H1N1 Phishing”
i remember being scared of getting infected by H1N1 during the height of the pandemic. at least two of my classmates got infected by H1N1.
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