I received an email with the subject of ZUMA AND MOTHER from someone I did not know, zuma bullians, and the email was addressed to no one. Which means I was on the blind carbon copy list. All of this struck me as a spam message, until I actually read the content of the email and realized this was a part of a scam.

This scam mail has been around for a while. If you see a message like this, don't respond to it, just DELETE IT.

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Here is another version of the "Next of Kin" scam email. This one is for an english lawyer.

If you receive an email like this just Delete It.

Here are the contents of the email I received.

ATTORNEY MARK ANTHONY
Plot 12 Mary Land,Lagos-Nigeria

Dear Moats,

I am Barrister Mark Anthony (Esq) , I am the Personal Attorney to Mr. Henry
Moats,a foreigner, who use to work with Jangle Cement Company here in
Nigeria, on the 2nd of Dec. 2002, my client and his wife ,got involved in a
car accident, all occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives.
Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my clients
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet,
to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you. I
have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund left behind by my late
client because the bank have asked me as his lawyer to produce his next of
kin.

Particularly, Bank have given me a notice to provide the next of kin to
claim the contract valued at about US$11 Million Dollars or have the amount
confiscates, since I have been unsuccessfully in locating the relatives for
over years, now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased since your a foreigner and have the same surname so that the
proceeds of this account valued at US$11 Million can be paid to you.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this dealt through
.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law of your country and my country
too as a professional legal attorney in
the field.

Finally, kindly maintain confidentiality between me and you on this
transaction.

Note: Some of the lawyers in my office have been planning to divert this
particular amount of money US$11M but they failed because I never authorized
anybody to do that, as the principal attorney of this estate I hereby urge
your assistance to get this fund transfer into your account legitimately
which I am assuring you. Some lawyers may contact you in different ways
concerning this claim, don't respond to them, forwarding me the message they
send to you so that I can get them sacked and arrested.

Upon your consideration of this transaction, you are hereby asked to send
the following information that I will use to prepare and application on your
behalf as you Legal Counsel representing this claim legally:

1. Your Full names
2. Your complete Postal Address.
3. Your Telephone number
4. Your fax number
5. Your Occupation.
6. Sex.
7. Marital Status.
8. Ages

I await your urgent response.

ALL RESPONSE SHALL BE SEND TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS AS IN
BRACKET (markclaim10@uku.co.uk)
Best regards,
ATTORNEY MARK ANTHONY

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I was looking through some suspicious files last night, I am way behind on this so this information, while interesting, may be a little dated.

Through my travels I had discovered a web site that was using the RDS DataSpace object to download and execute virus code on unsuspecting visitors. I was curious about the downloaded executable so I grabbed it and the web page for further review. The downloaded file was named vnn.exe on the server, which was identified as W32.Imaut.S worm by Symantec.

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Here we are at the start of a new year and wouldn't it be great if eveyone's home computer was running updated Anti-Virus software. I know that some folks don't purchase AV software because of the expense and the mindset of, "I don't do anything to get a virus so I don't really need that".Well, you really do need AV software and ...... I won't get into "you really need to patch any windows machine you have" and have a firewall and antispyware, and practice safe Internet / Email habits.

Any way back to AV software, there are a few Anti-Virus companies out there that recognize the need for inexpensive, aka Free, Home PC Anti-Virus protection. Most of the big Anti-Virus companies provide free online products, but there are a few companies that provide actual Free PC software based Anti-Virus for your Personal / Home machine. I thought I would list the few that I know about.

Free Virus Scanners
AVG Free Virus Scanner
avast Free Virus Scanner
Avira Free Virus Scanner

Free Online Virus Scanners
VirusTotal free online scanner
Trend Micro free online scanner
McAfee free online scanner
Kaspersky free online scanner
F-Secure free online scanner

If you know of any others please post here so we can share with everyone.