i think its a hoax

ok i just copied and pasted that after emailing to my gmail account i might go and try and get the header because not all of it seems to be there now ??? but you may say its a hoax with out even reading the header


From: 12####$$%$%$
Date: 10/01/2009 1:05:13 PM
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:,"@netspace.net.au
Subject: Very, Very, Very, Urgent, Please Read and Pass On(



I checked this with TruthOrFiction.com TRUTH R@ly



Hi all,
This has been checked out with Snopes, and is a Bona Fide problem. Do with this what you will..
love and God bless,
Elaine










I did check this out... Snopes does say it is a real virus. Be careful!

Jen.





I checked,snopes.Com says is real) http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp



You may want to check this out.







http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp



THERE IS AN EMAIL WITH SUBJECT LINE OBAMA ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AND OTHER SIMILAR TITLES FLOATING AROUND WITH A TROJAN HORSE ATTACHMENT. DO NOT OPEN FOR ANY REASON!!! DELETE IMMEDIATELY. THE TROJAN STEALS ALL PASSWORDS AND USER IDS!!!
SPREAD THE WORD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.

I cant confirm or deny if it is a hoax but what I would suggest is to delete it and forget it.

It may be a good time to share a little story about spam.

About a year ago I recieved an email from one of my work collegues, the email was similiar to yours in that it included a long string of messages and an even longer list of email addresses, the email was apparently a promotion for Ericson and if you send the email to a certain number of people and cced it to a particular email address to prove you had spammed your friends then they would give you a laptop.

It is amazing how many people believed that it may be true, the common reasoning is that all they had to do was to send the email to lots of their friends, no cost so what could they lose?

The whole idea of the email from the creators point of view is certainly not to promote Ericson or to give away goods, it is to harvest email addresses for people to scam and spam, in this case, it doesn't matter that I didn't reply because my collegeu had given the criminals my email address which meant that I began to get loads more spam.

The email you have posted is not much different , the major difference is that you dont have to CC the criminal to get the details to them, you do that by visiting their website, even if the site seems innocent enough, while you are reading the site may well be downloading to your computer.

Even in cases where there is no ill intent, many people when recieving spam will forward it to their contact lists and these list will often land into the lap of scammers, I have seen examples where people I have email warned about scammers add me to their own mailing list and forward their spam to me, more disturbing is that they also forward it to the person who was scamming them, thus putting their friends on the mailing list of the person who was trying to steal from them

So next time you are faced with the decision, forward to 20 friends or delete, do the smart thing and delete

um i know all that i was hopeing to conferm so i could send a reply to the person to tell him it was a hoax but i wanted to conferm it first other wise he will think im a smart ass but im trying to help him ill see if any one else had herd of it ill hang on to a skyho@k and wait

ok i clicked on the link while in FF (fire fox).the one my friend thinks is the safe one and it all read and looked fine but i noticed that FF had blocked a pop up .
so my friend thinks he is not falling for the hoax so he sends it on to me thinking that he has cleared the spam off it but he hasnt so i well write him a fresh email and try and get him here. Fingers crossed he listions

@ralph i will paste what you wrote. To him as well ow wow there is some nice smilies there better than your brothers

Just to chip in here - it is very unwise to click on any links you get in an email from someone you don't know (or even if it's forwarded by someone you do know).

As Ralph said above, many spam emails rely on curiosity (or greed) to get people to click on the links. They'll sometimes use attention-grabbing subjects like "Britney Spears Shops at Bel Bambini" (that's a real one from my spam folder).

If you don't click on the link, the worse that happens is you miss out on the story - so you Google the subject and if there's a real story out there you'll get lots of hits. The best that can happen if you don't click on that interesting link is you keep your computer clean and your personal details safe. No contest, in my view.