Fake Funeral Home Death Notice

Just got the following in my e-mail. The link they provided will install malware on the computer. How much lower can these scumbags get. I XXXed out the link.
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Eubank
Funeral Home & Cremation Services


For this unprecedented event, we offer our deepest prayers of condolence and invite to you to be present at the
celebration of your friends life service on Thursday, January 23, 2014 that will take place at Eubank
Funeral Home at 11:00 a.m.

Please find invitation and more detailed information about the farewell ceremony here XXX

Best wishes and prayers,

Funeral home receptionist,
Jayden Brown


Copyright 2014 Funeral Home Website Design By: Frazer Consultants LLC

I agree. It is getting bad. And all of the futuristic movies of years ago talking about hackers in the future.....I guess we are partially there.

Gee if I knew the dead guy I might go but I just couldn't figure it out. First thing I look for in scams is do they know my name and a y name of someone mentioned it's a dead give away.
Walt

You are asking how low Russian organized crime syndicates will go? Are you serious?

If you continue to run Windows on your PC, expect to get infected. You might very well be infected already and not know it.

I have received two of these in the past couple of weeks. Deleted them both immediately.

MarkB -- So are you saying that they send out that type of thing to get you to open it up and then some kind of virus infects the computer and does what? compromise your account numbers if you order something on line or open your banks site? I usually delete without opening but I have opened some e-mails and wondered at the point because they were so ametuerish and written in broken english, so obviously fake that I could not see how anyone would fall for a conventional ""send me your money"" type scam but if the real point is to gain access to your machine then that is a different story. Why is it just Windows? what are the options? Apple machines?

I got that one yesterday, Hotmail put it right in the junk mail for me. I didn't open it

Apple machines are not immune.
Mac Trojan Malware

The first known virus was written for the Apple II. It was spread by people sharing 5 1/4" diskettes.

LAA, for the criminal, your computer is a tool, no different than the vise on your workbench. Once he gains access to it, he can use it to do whatever it is he wants to do. Getting malware installed on your PC is merely a means to an end. He might use your PC to send spam. He might use it to launch a denial of service attack on somebody he doesn't like. Or maybe he'll install some nuisance program that pops up asking you to pay him money to remove it. The possibilities are limited only by the criminal's imagination.

The most dangerous malware of which I'm aware is the keystroke loggers. This is a program which sits quietly on your computer capturing every character you type. If you happen to log into to your bank's online checking, he will own your account information and can use it to clean out your account. This is not a hypothetical threat; millions of dollars have been lost by big financial institutions due to keyloggers. You could have a keystroke logger running on your PC right now and not know it.

Why Windows? Two reasons: it's the most common desktop operating system, and is typically the easiest to crack. Linux and Macintosh systems are less common; combined with the difficulty in breaking into them it makes sense for the criminals to focus on Windows. That's not to say Linux and Mac machines are 100 percent safe, but they're a couple of orders of magnitude safer than the typical Windows PC.

The safest possible system is a PC running Linux booted from a "live" CD. Since the CD is read-only, infection is nearly impossible. If you want to do on-line banking from a Windows box, the safe way to do it is to boot it up with a Linux live CD.

Most popular Linux distributions such as Fedora or Ubuntu are reasonably secure. That's the second best choice security-wise after the live CD.

Macs are also reasonably secure, certainly better than Windows.

A PC running a current version of Windows with up-to-date patches and third-party can be fairly secure. If you're running an old version, such as XP, better watch out.

MarkB -- Appreciate the information -- definitely time to upgrade.