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Naughty Robot

A hoax. The text of one such email follows:

EMERGENCY - security breached by NaughtyRobot

This message was sent to you by NaughtyRobot, an Internet spider that crawls into your server through a tiny hole in the World Wide Web. NaughtyRobot exploits a security bug in HTTP and has visited your host system to collect personal, private, and sensitive information. It has captured your Email and physical addresses, as well as your phone and credit card numbers. To protect yourself against the misuse of this information, do the following:

1. 1. alert your server SysOp,
2. 2. contact your local police,
3. 3. disconnect your telephone, and
4. 4. report your credit cards as lost.