VIP? Not in a fraudster’s vocabulary. Fraudsters choose no person, date or time when to release their attacks. US Department of Justice (USDOJ) is never an exception of getting victimized by fraud spammers.

There is a spam email message that is circulating the Web resembling the authentic USDOJ letterhead where the hoax message is written. Bearing the USDOJ logo, an unsuspecting recipient could be deceived to believe that the email is legitimate.

The message disturbs the recipient by saying that a complaint to the US Dept. of Justice has been filed against the recipient’s company. A copy of the complaint is attached to the mail. The recipient, getting shocked of the email, would then open the attached document.

What the recipient does not know is that the file attached is actually a Trojan downloader detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_DLOADER.QRQ. When executed, this Trojan also drops several malicious files, including TROJ_RUNDIS.H and TROJ_AGENT.ADCU.

People have to be triple cautious about email messages. Without an antivirus software and other proactive security measures (such as Web reputation/Web blocking services), only personal discretion would save or bring one to malware danger.

This applies to all, no VIP treatments on this department.