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"Virus Hoax:
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Make Money Fast Hoax Warning
The Make Money Fast Warning is similar to the Good Times and PENPAL
GREETINGS! hoaxes, but appears to be a warning message that is
attempting to kill the Make Money Fast e-mail chain letter. While
laudable in its intent, the warning has caused as much or more
problems than the chain letter it is attempting to kill. ******VIRUS
ALERT****** ******VIRUS ALERT****** ******VIRUS ALERT******
There is NEW VIRUS rapidly affecting computers on the internet.
This new virus is insidious, in that it transmitted as a USENET
message. Usenet is the "news group" area on the internet that users
can openly discuss and exchange information on a wide variety of
topics.
What makes this virus DOUBLY DANGEROUS, is that it is disguised as a
common chain letter. Chain letters have been passed across usenet
almost since it's beginning. Lately, a common chain letter subject
is MAKE MONEY FAST.
The Make Money Fast (MMF) chain is read by thousands of people
daily. It is also known as: "Easy Cash", "Make Cash Fast", "Turn 5$
into $50,000" and many others. They are all basically the same
scheme, in which the reader send $1 to each of the 5 people at the
bottom of the list, then moves his name onto the list.
The MMF Virus, as it has been doubed, rides along on these chain
letters as a "hidden binary attachment". Since most news reader
programs (computer programs used to read USENET messages) will
automatically decode and store binary attachments, there is NO SAFE
WAY to protect yourself from infection.
The virus attackes your system the next time you run your news
reader. Though the virus is transmitted during a normal usenet
session, your NEXT usenet session will probably be your last for a
while. As a hidden attachment, it is automatically activated with
your news reader, and very quickly destroys your partition table.
Generally, this is not even noticed until the next time you try to
run ANY program.
The next thing the virus does is to place your micro processor into
an nth-complexity infinate binary loop, quickly destroying it. This
will appear at first as a normal "lock-up" but will quickley wipe
out the delicate circuitry in your system.
The people that run usenet, at: news.admin.net-abusers are working
night and day on a cure. Perhaps some day an automatic process will
be able to detect the MMF Virus in usenet messages and cancel them,
but that is some time off.
At this point, your ONLY hope is to NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGES that
have a subject similar to above. Please, FORWARD this message to
ANYONE you know that reads usenet news.
Thank you, News.Admin.Net-Abusers
The warning appears to be attempting to kill the following e-mail
message that came with the Subject: Make Money Fast, that describes
how to start an illegal pyramid scheme on the Internet. Hello! I've
got some awesome news that I think you need to take two minutes to
read if you have ever thought "How could I make some serious cash in
a hurry???" , or been in serious debt, ready to do almost anything
to get the money needed to pay off those bill collectors. So grab a
snack, a warm cup of coffee, or a glass of your favorite beverage,
get comfortable and listen to this interesting, exciting find! Let
me start by saying that I FINALLY FOUND IT! That's right!. found it!
And I HATE GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES!! I hate those schemes like
multi-level marketing, mail-order schemes, envelope stuffing scams,
900 number scams... the list goes on forever. I have tried every
darn get rich quick scheme out there over the past 12 years. I
somehow got on mailing lists for people looking to make money (more
like 'desperate stupid people who will try anything for money!'). .
. . . . [For the completion of the Make Money Fast chain letter,
reference the Make Money Fast Page.]
Copyright 2004 by Jay Jennings
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