 Due
to overwhelming logistical and legal issues surrounding
ticket distribution for World Cup 2006 in German, FIFA
president Joseph Blatter announced that Fifa itself
will resume responsibility for ticket distribution for
the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Local Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan in SOuth
Africa said that he welcomed Fifa's decision to take
charge of ticket sales for the 2010 World Cup. According
to Jordaan, FIFA is trying to streamline the operation
in which they have an overriding role in the organisation
of the World Cup.
Bogus FIFA lottery scam hits the net
By John Leyden
Published Wednesday 28th September 2005 17:20 GMT
Fraudsters have launched a phishing campaign thattries
to dupe football fans into believing they've won a FIFA-sponsored
lottery in an attempt to steal bank account information.
The bogus email notifications of supposed $1m winnings
prey on interest in the Football World Cup tournament,
scheduled to take place for the first time in South
Africa in 2010. FIFA, the international football governing
body, has posted a warning on its website. (Click
here to read official FIFA announcement)
The latest spam attacks represent a phishing refinement
on standard lottery scams themed around the 2010 World
Cup dating back over a year or more. "Everyone
should be suspicious if they are unexpectedly told they
have won a fortune," said Graham Cluley, senior
technology consultant for Sophos. "Computer users
who fall for this trick will be feeling as sick as a
parrot when their bank accounts are emptied and they
find they have become the victim of identity fraudsters."
World Cup fever has captured the imagination of VXers
as well as fraudsters. In May, virus writers released
a version of the Sober email worm that ensnared victims
by posing as an email from the World Cup 2006 organising
committee. Like previous variants, Sober-P was Windows
specific and spread as an infected ZIP attachment to
messages written in either German or English.
Infected emails pose as ticket confirmation messages
from organisers of the football World Cup, due to be
held in Germany next year. The worm composes messages
with subject lines such as "WM-Ticket-Auslosung"
and "Your Password" with attachments such
as Fifa_Info-Text.zip containing a .pif payload file.
Days after the release of Sober-P, hackers to turn infected
machines into relay stations for nationalist spam causing
a considerable nuisance in the process.
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