AOL Instant Messenger critical update - Phishing / Virus scam

Sent by: AOL
Sent via Email address: donotreply@aim.com (fake)
Subject Line: AOL Instant Messenger critical update
Determination: Fake email for phishing attempt by infecting your computer with viruses.
Scam email volume: Extremely aggressive mostly with older harvested emails often sent multiple times to the same address with various similar subject lines.

Dear AOL Instant Messenger user,

Your AIM account is flagged as inactive. Within the following 72 hours it’ll be deleted from the system.

If you plan to use this account in the future, you have to download and launch the latest update for the AIM. This update is critical.

In order to install the update use the following link (link removed which went to scam site http://update.aol.com.pioqe.com.pl/products/aimController.php?code=683440388705904474530770119812771767854532852337835574700369830&email=(mystolenemailadress). This link is generated exclusively for your account and is available within a certain period of time. As soon as this link is not available anymore you will get another letter.

Thank you,
AIM Service Team

This e-mail has been sent from an e-mail address that is not monitored. Please do not reply to this message. We are unable to respond to any replies.

THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY - IT IS FOR REAL - spam

To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney. If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have you got to lose?

SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an attorney, And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long a go.

Dear Friends: Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent later Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.

When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check.


Regards.

Charles S Bailey
General Manager Field Operations
1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or 904-1085 or RNX 292-1085

Thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks af ter receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on. Microsoft contacted me for my address and within days, I received a check for $24,000.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can afford this, Bill gates is the man.

It's all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many people as possible. You are bound to get at least $10,000.00 We're not going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a little something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When I went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game,she showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid In Full".

(and now check out all the poor people whose emails have been harvested and are due to get a crap load of spam!)

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