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!!?UNAVAILABLE!? Mobile Phone Hoax

Type
Hoax
SubType
E-mail
Discovery Date
06/21/2000
Length
Minimum DAT
N/A ( )
Updated DAT
N/A ( )
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
06/22/2000
Description Modified
01/18/2002 12:46 PM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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Characteristics

AVERT HOAX Notice!!

McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of an email HOAX.

This hoax has been forwarded due to misinformation related to an Internet worm named VBS/Timofonica. Although the script did send notice messages to phone users on a specific subscription service, the information below is completely unrelated.

We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

Below is the actual text from the message that may be received via email.

Again, if you receive this email delete it and DO NOT pass it on.

McAfee AVERT

Symptoms

Ignore or delete messages which match this content.

Method of Infection

Ignore or delete messages which match this content.

Removal

Users should either ignore or delete messages received matching this description.

Variants

Variants

    N/A

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Characteristics

Characteristics -

AVERT HOAX Notice!!

McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of an email HOAX.

This hoax has been forwarded due to misinformation related to an Internet worm named VBS/Timofonica. Although the script did send notice messages to phone users on a specific subscription service, the information below is completely unrelated.

We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

Below is the actual text from the message that may be received via email.

Again, if you receive this email delete it and DO NOT pass it on.

McAfee AVERT

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Ignore or delete messages which match this content.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Ignore or delete messages which match this content.

Removal -

Removal -

Users should either ignore or delete messages received matching this description.

Variants

Variants -

    N/A