SR News: Free Vacation Virus Hoax Warning


The "Free Vacation" Hoax!

This hoax seems to be inspired by the "Win a Holiday"  hoax.  although  this
hoax doesn't contain the more elaborate text in the "Win  a  Holiday"  hoax.
Just like the "Win a Holiday Hoax", the "Free Vacation" hoax, warns  you  to
avoid email with a specific title that is found in a number of typical  SPAM
type email solicitations. For this reason, there's a good  chance  you  will
actually get an email with this title and  this  fact  seems  to  give  some
credibility to these rather lame hoaxes. Here is the full (unedited) text of
the "Free Vacation" hoax:

       THIS IS DANGER...TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM....no joke here.

       DON'T ANSWER A E-mail fpr a "YOU WON A FREE VACATION"!....if you do,
       it's your own fault....YOUR COMPUTER HARD DRIVE IS AT RISK OF LOSS OF
       ALL FILES PERMANENTLY!

       This will NOT affect WEB-TV USERS...

As you can see there's not much to this hoax. The author  didn't  even  take
care with his wording or spelling (e.g., "THIS IS DANGER"  and  "E-mail  fpr
a") The remark about WEB-TV, is probably in there to add credibility because
WEB-TV users generally don't have a hard drive to lose.

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                                     Copyright c 1998 Stiller Research.
                                    Document Last Modified April 2, 1998.

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