Phishing with Free Software

Last day I received this email, fortunately the spam engine detected it, but is different the content, other times I had receive similar emails for proprietary software, specially MS Office Suite, which is so expensive and many people want a cheap (an illegal) version. But this time the reference is a Free Software office suite, OpenOffice which in few days will release the new version 3.0.

This is the infamous message:

From Suite 2009 
To XXXXXX@XXXXXX.XXX
Date October 6th 2008 18:55
Subject Download Open Office 2009


Open Office Suite 2009
Open, Create & Edit Your Files

Download Office Suite 2009??Here

Edit Word, Excel & Power Point files- 100% MS Office Compatible.
Read and write PDF files just like Adobe.

Here's how to download Open Office 2009:

1. Go to: Download Page
2. Download Open Office 2009
3. Receive access immediately

This software package is the best way to edit your documents.
Publish all of your documents online in the HTML format.

Thank you for choosing us, the worldwide leader in Open Office 2009.

For More Information Visit our Website

Thank You,

David Matthews
Office Solutions




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Of course than the message include some links to info--online-email.info and call a PHP document sending the email account (this is enough to confirm a valid address and add it to a spam list).

If you want OpenOffice just go to the official website: http://www.openoffice.org/