Malware fritter

[ianr]

I've just received my most muddle-headed malware-spreading email yet.

On the one hand, it's halfway competent. It claims to be a notification from DHL Express about a wrong address on a package for me. Can I please print a local copy of the address label, to take along to their local office in order to collect the package. The English is fine, and credible. And they provide several links to real DHL sites. The malware itself is downloadable via a "Click here to print the shipping label" link and is an executable .exe file, parked on a hijacked .co.uk website, that would doubtless colonise my computer if given half a chance.

All well and bad. But utterly spoiled by their having sent the same email, as open copies, to about twenty other people, who all also happen to have the same username. I then noticed too that the link labelled "DHL Express services.proud to be different" points to an empy .gif file on the Nationwide Building Society website. I blame the teachers.