Suspicious email from Passporter About This Page:

[dashulak]

I received the following email, supposedly from this website. Please advise if this is legitimate or not and if it is legitimate, what does it mean?

Thanks!

Dear user of e-mail server "Yahoogroups.com",

Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next
three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your
account information.

For further details see the attach.

For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is "62080".

Sincerely,
The Yahoogroups.com team http://www.yahoogroups.com


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


PassPorterWDW is a community service
from PassPorter Walt Disney World: The
Complete Vacation Planning Site and
PassPorter Walt Disney World: The unique
travel guide, planner, organizer,
journal, and keepsake! (we're the one
with the built-in itinerary/storage
pockets customized for your Disney
vacation). http://www.passporter.com

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PassPorterWDW_News/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
PassPorterWDW_News-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

[Brant]

I got that, everyone who is a member of the PP Yahoo Group got that today. I'm betting it's been so inactive for so long, it's going to be shut down and we all got a warning email.

[GoofyMom]

I got basically this same email from my email server today - twice! I contacted the company that provides our internet service and they told me it is a virus and to delete it immediately . Norton did not catch either email. I became suspicious because of the grammatical and typing errors. I was also told that people using hotmail, yahoo and telus for email servers were receiving emails containing this virus that were masquerading as notices from their servers. I don't know what the name of the virus is, nor whether it's a worm, a trojan, or whatver.



Edited to add: Gee, I just checked my email again, and I got this PassPorter one too. I just deleted it.

[shannie75]

<font color="green"> I have not gotten anything, so I don't know if it is a result of having the free email providers (hotmail, yahoo, etc). I would just delete it and not worry about it.

Shannon </font>

[LilMarcieMouse]

<font color="blue">I got it too. I also opended it. Since it was Passporter on it. I hope I didn't get any Virus. </font>

[whoSEZ]

I got it too, and my employer was warning us today about this virus. It's disguised to look like someone you trust -- at work, for example, it's from the "support" group. Here, it says from Jennifer and Dave. Either way, DELETE it. It's okay if you opened the e-mail -- just DO NOT open any attachments.

Delete, delete, delete!!

[Shell_of_the_South]

I got the same email, but there was no attachment with it. A virus is sent by an attachment. But the wording did sound strange. I emailed Jennifer and asked her what it meant, and I am also going to contact Yahoo and ask them. I will let you know what I hear.

[ciadria]

<font color="red">DO NOT OPEN THIS E-MAIL OR ITS ATTACHMENTS </font> <font color="purple"> I received this e-mail today at work and it was addressed from our firm's e-mail address. Luckily, we keep up to date on our virus protection, so I didn't bring our whole system down, but there is a virus in this e-mail and it is designed to look official and from someone you know. We were told to hit shift and delete to permanently delete it from our computers. Hope this helps. </font>

[Dave Marx]

Hi Folks,

That mail is definitely not legitimate. Do not open the attached file, under any circumstances.

We're sorry this happened. We're taking steps to ensure that our YahooGroups account is not hijacked like this again.

Meantime, we are sending out a message from that YahooGroups account to let folks know what happened. It will not have an attachment. If you've read this note, you don't even have to bother reading the e-mail.

Thanks!