Page 1 of Fake myreviewer email - watch out...

Just received this in my inbox:

**********Important - Internal ONLY**********
File Validity: 05/19/2015 Company : myreviewer.com File Format: Adobe Reader Legal Copyright: Adobe Corporation.
Please follow this link : https://myreviewer.com/fileserver/reports/report_fax ********** Confidentiality Notice **********.
This e-mail and any file(s) transmitted with it, is intended for the exclusive use by the person(s) mentioned above as recipient(s). This e-mail may contain confidential information and/or information protected by intellectual property rights or other rights. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or action taken in relation to the contents of and attachments to this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete the original and any copies of this e-mail and any printouts immediately from your system and destroy all copies of it.

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Si Wooldridge
Reviewer

http://synth.myreviewer.com

You can safely follow that link for a variety of reasons, not least of which it cannot, and could not possibly work! :)

Unless it's a HTML email and the actual link isn't what it says it is?

Editor
DVD REVIEWER
MYREVIEWER.COM

My Flickr Photostream

Wouldn't follow it anyway, but thought I should let people know to look out for it...

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Si Wooldridge
Reviewer

http://synth.myreviewer.com

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Si Wooldridge says...
"Wouldn't follow it anyway, but thought I should let people know to look out for it..."I agree.  Is there nothing you want to add Rob?  No clue as to any reason for the mail?

Ste

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sj says...
"I agree. Is there nothing you want to add Rob? No clue as to any reason for the mail?"
At a guess (without seeing the original email source) it's spam that takes the domain name from the email address and then uses it to try and get you to download a virus from a site pretending to be from that domain name when the actual link isn't to it at all.

So if Si's email address was is[at]moc.ytelbbibytrebbilf then he'd have got a virus spam email that read:


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**********Important - Internal ONLY**********
File Validity: 05/19/2015 Company : flibbertybibblety.com File Format: Adobe Reader Legal Copyright: Adobe Corporation.
Please follow this link : https://flibbertybibblety.com/fileserver/reports/report_fax ********** Confidentiality Notice **********.
Only the actual link didn't go to flibbertybibblety.com and just pretends to. As an example (this link is completely safe to click on, it's just a rick roll):

https://flibbertybibblety.com/fileserver/reports/report_fax

So it's actually not specific to myreviewer at all, it just appears to be. It's their way of trying to get you to click on a dodgy link, figuring someone somewhere would look at it and think "oh it's just a pdf from my own company's website" or something.

Editor
DVD REVIEWER
MYREVIEWER.COM

My Flickr Photostream

Agree with all of that, just wanted to highlight it in case anyone else got one.

Was named as coming from nimda[at]moc.reweiverym but was obvious that it wasn't.

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Si Wooldridge
Reviewer

http://synth.myreviewer.com