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Despite Hoax

Type
Hoax
SubType
E-mail
Discovery Date
03/01/1999
Length
N/A
Minimum DAT
N/A ( )
Updated DAT
N/A ( )
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
10/04/1999
Description Modified
10/04/1999 12:00 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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Characteristics

This is NOT an actual virus.
Below is a copy of the actual text which was passed around.


!!!!!This is not SPAM or joke!!!!!
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Hi from Ukraine.
When you receive this message, all computers in your network is already infected by DESPITE-virus.
11th of October, 1999, data in the all databases will be lost.
For disinfect you need to use only STARIONI disinfector.
1. Send to data@aip.mk.ua your valid e-mail address with subject "DESPITE".
2. Send US$24.99 to the following bank account.
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Bank account:
BENEFICIARY: NIKOLAEV BRANCH CB "PRIVATBANK"
BENEFICIARY ADDRESS: 27 FRUNZE STR., NIKOLAEV UKRAINE
ACCOUNT: 3901 9 004017 003

BANK OF BENEFICIARY: COMMERCIAL BANK "PRIVATBANK"
ADDRESS OF THE BENEFICIARY'S BANK: DNEPROPETROVSK, UKRAINE
SWIFT: PBAN UA 2X
CORRESPONDENT ACCOUNT: 890-0085-754

INTERMEDIARY BANK: THE BANK OF NEY YORK
ADDRESS OF THE INTERMEDIARY BANK: Eastern Europe Division
One Wall St., 9-th Floor
New York, N.Y., 10286, USA
SWIFT: IRVT US 3N

DETAILS OF PAYMENTS: IN FAVOUR acc.26206791707001/875
RACHKOVAN VADIM
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After receiving your bank transaction, the STARIONI disinfector
in self-extract archive "starioni.exe"(74.648 bytes) will have
been deliver to your mailbox immediately.

Copyright (c)1999 SILF Group.

Symptoms

Method of Infection

Removal

-

Variants

Variants

    N/A

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Characteristics

Characteristics -

This is NOT an actual virus.
Below is a copy of the actual text which was passed around.


!!!!!This is not SPAM or joke!!!!!
----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi from Ukraine.
When you receive this message, all computers in your network is already infected by DESPITE-virus.
11th of October, 1999, data in the all databases will be lost.
For disinfect you need to use only STARIONI disinfector.
1. Send to data@aip.mk.ua your valid e-mail address with subject "DESPITE".
2. Send US$24.99 to the following bank account.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Bank account:
BENEFICIARY: NIKOLAEV BRANCH CB "PRIVATBANK"
BENEFICIARY ADDRESS: 27 FRUNZE STR., NIKOLAEV UKRAINE
ACCOUNT: 3901 9 004017 003

BANK OF BENEFICIARY: COMMERCIAL BANK "PRIVATBANK"
ADDRESS OF THE BENEFICIARY'S BANK: DNEPROPETROVSK, UKRAINE
SWIFT: PBAN UA 2X
CORRESPONDENT ACCOUNT: 890-0085-754

INTERMEDIARY BANK: THE BANK OF NEY YORK
ADDRESS OF THE INTERMEDIARY BANK: Eastern Europe Division
One Wall St., 9-th Floor
New York, N.Y., 10286, USA
SWIFT: IRVT US 3N

DETAILS OF PAYMENTS: IN FAVOUR acc.26206791707001/875
RACHKOVAN VADIM
----------------------------------------------------------------
After receiving your bank transaction, the STARIONI disinfector
in self-extract archive "starioni.exe"(74.648 bytes) will have
been deliver to your mailbox immediately.

Copyright (c)1999 SILF Group.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Removal -

Removal -

-

Variants

Variants -

    N/A