Health/Cyber Alert: CDC Issues H1N1 Phishing Warning

CDC Issues H1N1 Phishing Alert and Warning to Potential Victims

CDC has received reports of fraudulent emails (phishing) referencing a CDC sponsored State Vaccination Program.

The messages request that users must create a personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Profile on the cdc.gov website. The message then states that anyone that has reached the age of 18 has to have his/her personal Vaccination Profile on the cdc.gov site.

The CDC has NOT implemented a state vaccination program requiring registration on www.cdc.gov.

Users that click on the email are at risk of having malicious code installed on their system.

CDC reminds users to take the following steps to reduce the risk of being a victim of a phishing attack:

Do not follow unsolicited links and do not open or respond to unsolicited email messages.

Use caution when visiting un-trusted websites.

Use caution when entering personal information online

An example of the Phishing email follows:

From:В В В В В В  To:
Subject: State Vaccination Program

You have received this e-mail because of the launching of State Vaccination Program.

You need to create your personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Profice on the cdc.gov site. This profile has to be created both for the vaccinated people and the not-vaccinated one. This profile is used for the registering system of vaccinated and not-vaccinated people. Create you Personal H1N1 Vaccination Profile using the link:

Creat Personal Profile

Please Remember - The CDC has NOT implemented a state vaccination program requiring registration on www.cdc.gov.

Users that click on the email are at risk of having malicious code installed on their system.

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December 4, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: H1N1 Influenza Virus, Swine Flu

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