I got this email today, its really a kids type email, a very old system

ACCOUNT SUSPENSION!!! VERIFY YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNT NOW

Dear Account User,

This Email is from Gmail Customer Care and we are sending it to every Gmail User Accounts Owner for safety. We are having congestion due to the anonymous registration of Free & Unused Gmail Accounts. So we are shutting down some Gmail  Accounts and your Account was among those to be deleted. We are sending this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User name, password, date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account information in our Database system.

Due to the congestion in all Free Gmail Account users and removal of all unused Accounts, Gmail Team would be shutting down all unused Accounts. You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.

*USERNAME & E-MAIL ID:

*PASSWORD:

*VERIFY PASSWORD:

*ALTERNATE EMAIL ADDRESS:

*DATE OF BIRTH:

*OCCUPATION:

*COUNTRY/TERRITORY:

After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences. Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

The nice topic here is the password , if Google wants they will ask you to fill it through an online form and never ask to send by email.. so take care, if anyone ask your password online, just ignore them. I don’t know how many peoples already got send their passwords. The email is send from different domain not from Google or gmail domain. I think this guy is a new Kid learning how to hack email.

The Life is beautiful virus hoax is an e-mail hoax which began circulating on the Internet around January 2002. The e-mail details a virus contained in a Microsoft PowerPoint attachment which is supposedly called Life is beautiful.pps. To date, no such virus has been found and the e-mail is widely considered a hoax.

The e-mail claims to be based upon information from Microsoft and Norton. Symantec, the makers of Norton AntiVirus and who actually provides the virus definitions database for Norton AntiVirus, have issued an advisory stating that the e-mail is a hoax.

The hoax e-mail continues by saying that the virus was made by a person who is suing Microsoft in court for patent infringement.

Sample E-Mail

This is a sample of the English version of the hoax.

URGENT! VIRUS!

This information arrived this morning, from Microsoft and Norton.

Please send it to everybody you know who accesses the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless email with a PowerPoint presentation called “Life is beautiful.pps.”

If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete it immediately.

If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying: “It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful”, subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, email and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS.

AOL has already confirmed it’s dangerous, and the antivirus softwares are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself “life owner”, and who aims to destroy domestic PCs and who also fights Microsoft in court!

That’s why it comes disguised with extension pps. He fights in court for the Windows-XP patent.

MAKE A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.

Alternative 2008/2009 variation

Be Extremely Careful

Especially if using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.

This information arrived this morning direct from both Microsoft and Norton.

Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point presentation ‘Life is beautiful.’

If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUM STANCES , and delete it immediately .

If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying: ‘It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.’

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon.

AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the antivirus software’s are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself ‘life owner.’

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS and ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY

Source Wikipedia

The email i am posting below is from an unknown guy claiming the email is from naukri, take care of this emails. I have changed the email addresses for safety reason.

When ever you receive these kind of email click on show info you will see the senders & receivers email address etc, look at the reply-to address, you will know to whom its going,  if you click reply to  it.

Keep note,  none of the companies or sites ask the users the password,  so never give anyone your password, if someone asks Ignore it.

Naukri Maintenance Department reply-to xyzagency@yahoo.com to date Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:19 AM subject Dear Customer

Reply

I got another email just after the Knet one, and this one is from same source, but they claim its from NBK Kuwait. As i mentioned before when ever you get this kind of emails don’t share any financial or any other details, if you have doubt, just call NBK and confirm.

Dear Watani Online business customer,

We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in your Watani Online account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to believe that your account was hijacked by a third party without your authorization. If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the log in attempts may have initiated by you.

However if you are the rightful holder of the account, click on the link below and submit, as we try to verify your account.

Click Here !!

The log in attempt was made from:

IP address: oo.ll.pp.kk (removed)
ISP host: ty.yt.ty.ty.ty.ty (removed)

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporally suspend your account.
We ask that you allow at least 48hrs for the case to be investigated and we strongly recommend not making any changes to your account in that time.

* Please do not respond to this email as your reply will not be received.

Thank you for your patience as we work together to protect your account.

Watani Online, Member FDIC.
2009 NBK Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Please be aware of the phishing emails, Its too dangerous if you follow what they say,  Never share any financial details to this kind of emails, I am sharing this because one of my friend just got fooled by them and they hacked his email. it was just an email but still he lost many of his informations which he had saved in it. So I thought and started this section.

The email pasted below is a phishing email claiming from Kuwait’s Knet Co.,  but takes you somewhere else when you click on the link provided in it, i have removed the links for safety reason. If you get this kind of email, take care. you should enable the status bar on your explorer, and when you move the mouse on the link, you can see the real link on the status bar. If you got an email like this Do not click on any links in the email, just call Knet and make sure if they had send you this email.

Dear Knet Online business customer,

We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in your Knet Online account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to believe that your account was hacked by a third party without your authorization. If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the log in attempts may have initiated by you.

However if you are the rightful holder of the account, click on the link below and submit, as we try to verify your account.

https://www.knet.com.kw/linkremoved

The log in attempt was made from:

IP address: XX.XX.XX.XX (removed)
ISP host: er.re.we.we.we.com (removed)

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporally suspend your account.
We ask that you allow at least 48hrs for the case to be investigated and we strongly recommend not making any changes to your account in that time.

* Please do not respond to this email as your reply will not be received.

Thank you for your patience as we work together to protect your account.

Knet Online, Member FDIC.
2009 Knet Corporation. All Rights Reserved.