Meninas da Playboy

Here is the text of the hoax, which has been distributed in Portuguese:

Subject: Importante novo vírus
Importance: High

Muita atenção!!!
A Microsoft acabou de anunciar o mais fatal de todos os vírus!!
BANCOC.VBS

Esse vírus foi descoberto na Argentina e esta se espalhando muito rapidamente pelo mundo todo. Ele se espalha com o titulo de Meninas da Playboy e força o leitor a salva-lo no disco rígido. O vírus tem o attachment BANCOC.VBS. Precisamos da ajuda de todos para pararmos com esse vírus. Até agora, ninguém achou uma vacina contra ele. A McAfee e a Norton anunciaram o mesmo sendo de alto risco. Tomem cuidado, ele destroi o seu disco rígido e apaga o Windows do seu Disco Rígido !! !
Mandem esse email para todos os seus amigos...

Obrigado pela vossa atenção.

Many virus hoaxes:

• falsely claim to describe an extremely dangerous virus
• use pseudo-technical language to make impressive-sounding (but impossible) claims
• falsely claim that the report was issued or confirmed by a well-known company
• ask you to forward it to all your friends and colleagues

As usual, you are urged not to pass on warnings of this kind, as the continued re-forwarding of these hoaxes simply wastes time and email bandwidth.

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