[/caption]Beauty and the Geek is a reality television series on CW Television Network (The CW). It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and was produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora.
Aappriver.com reported a few days ago:
"The Beauty and the Geek... is being used today as the “Ultimate Social Engineering Tactic”. This morning we began seeing a massive influx of zero day virus threat being sent via email. In all we saw at least seven different new variants of the same malware. The message that was coming in at the highest rate and certainly the most interesting of the group was a message claiming to be from the folks at the “Beauty and the Geek” show. The message claims that they are looking for contestants for the show and contains an attachment that you are instructed to open. The message attachment named [flyers.zip] contains malware identified as the Zbot Trojan."
On the next page you can see the message that was send out. If you have received that message or a similar one, be careful.
And the The Beauty and the Geek message that was send:
Message Body:
Hey guys
Already mentioned this to some of you and sorry about the mass email but thought I could be missing out on a good opportunity if I didn’t…
So… I’m looking for geeks all over USA. They need to be highly intelligent and shy/nervous around girls etc
All the contestants genuinely had an amazing time last year and are actively recommending it to their mates this year. They get the chance to teach hot girls a thing or two, and get the chance to win $100,000! So far – I haven’t spoken to a single geek who’s been offended that I’ve called them one. But if you’d rather – please do pass on their details to me and I’ll get in touch with them anonymously.
I’ve attached flyers in case you want to forward on, or put up in your office… Thanks so much
Hope to see you soon
It is not recommended to click on any link in that message. Actually it is best to not open any unsolicited email, especially not the attachments.
The final episode aired in 2008. So, any news or email related to this TV show looks extremely suspicious.
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