Spoofing of Ghanaweb email addresses is still Ongoing. If you receive the mail below, please DO NOT open the attachment. It may contain a virus or some form of spyware
Email spoofing: is the practice of changing your name in email so that it looks like the email came from somewhere or someone else

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From: staff@ghanaweb.com
Sent: 03 March, 2004 14:26
To:
Subject: Notify about using the e-mail account.

Hello user of Ghanaweb.com e-mail server,
Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service.
For details see the attached file.
Attached file is protected with the password for security reasons. Password is 45203.
Sincerely,
The Ghanaweb.com team http://www.ghanaweb.com

More Info On Spoofing

Someone spoofing the Ghanaweb Webmaster, has been sending email with a virus attachment. Please do not open any attachments sent to you from me i.e akoto@ghanaweb.com or webmaster@ghanaweb.com.

No member of the Ghanaweb staff sends emails using these addresses. We only receive emails sent to these addresses

Francis Akoto

Virus

A virus has surfaced where the e-mail message has the following details (NOTE: this is an example):

From: a spoofed (faked) address
Subject: Re: Your website, Re: Your product, Re: Your letter
Message: Your file is attached. Please read the attached file.
Attachment varies (for example): your_website.pif, your_product.pif , your_letter.pif