New Fake .Mac Email

This is not new. I first started getting mail from "the Momathome Team" over a year ago. Blogged about it at the time: http://www.momathome.com/viewfromhome/2004/03/best_wishes_fro.php As noted, it's a virus. The exact strain has changed, and the text of the email has varied a bit but it's essentially the same thing...trick the victim into thinking their ISP/email administrator sent the message so they'll follow the instructions. I support a number of domains and I'm getting a lot of "Did you send me this?" email from my clients who are smart enough to ask me first before clicking on the attachment. The virus doesn't know or care that you're on a Mac. All that matters is that you have an email address and that your address was found somewhere on a victim's computer.

If the password was changed for your .Mac account, and you didn't change your password in Mail.app (assuming you don't forward to a POP3 acct), wouldn't it raise a flag or two to receive this notice? In this example, the two passwords (server/client) wouldn't match.

Oh you guys. Google is your friend. It's a new strain of Mytob that popped up last week. I'm a lifelong Apple user but it still surprises me how technically illiterate a lot of Mac users are... "New fake .Mac e-mail"? I mean, come on...

You're actually a bit slow to get this, these started showing up in the wild (at least in my tech area) around a month ago. We got some frantic helpdesk calls from that one.

Like #5's friend, I got one of these emails, but it had a Windows executable attached. I'm not sure what they expected a Mac user to do with a Windows virus.

i laugh when i get emails from the tyrannous.net support team, and the tyrannous.net admin.

And to be complete, all apple.com IP addresses start with 17 and vice versa (all IP addresses that start with 17 belong to Apple.)

I've been getting the same thing at my domain - elise.com. "Thank you from the Elise Support Team". Several a day actually in just the last couple of weeks. What a pain.

My buddy got the same email and sent it to Apple. Apple informed him that it was indeed a fake and contained a WINDOWZ virus. The author was apparently too stupid to realize his virus wouldn't harm a Mac. The beauty is we are still immune to this junk...when will the PC heathens get a clue? :-)

I got the same email on my Verizon account. I called them and they said it was a fake. Delete it! Good luck