One of the people whose work has most influenced the world of security – a brilliant researcher who is also gifted with a sense of irony and humor – received this email and sent it on to a group of us. He didn't specify why he thought we would find it useful…
At any rate, the content boggles the mind. A joke? Or a metaspam social engineering attack, intended to bilk jealous boyfriends and competitors?
Or… could this kind of… virus actually be built and… sold?
Subject: MMS PHONE INTERCEPTOR – THE ULTIMATE SPY SOLUTION FOR MOBILE PHONES AND THE GREAT PRODUCT FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS
MMS PHONE INTERCEPTOR – The ultimate surveillance solution will enable you to acquire the most valuable information from a mobile phone of a person of your interested.
Now all you will need to do in order to get total control over a NOKIA mobile (target) phone of a person of your interest is to send the special MMS to that target phone, which is generated by our unique MMS PHONE INTERCEPTOR LOADER. 
This way you can get very valuable and otherwise un-accessible information about a person of your interest very easily.
The example of use:
You will send the special MMS message containing our unique MMS PHONE INTERCEPTOR to a mobile phone of e.g. your girlfriend
In case your girlfriend will be using her (target) mobile phone, you will be provided by following unique functions:
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In case your girlfriend will make an outgoing call or in case her (target) phone will receive an incoming call, you will get on your personal standard mobile phone an immediate SMS message about her call. This will give you a chance to listen to such call immediately on your standard mobile phone.
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In case your girlfriend will send an outgoing SMS message from her (target) mobile phone or she will receive a SMS message then you will receive a copy of this message on your mobile phone immediately.
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This target phone will give you a chance to listen to all sounds in its the surrounding area even in case the phone is switched off. Therefore you can hear very clearly every spoken word around the phone.
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You will get a chance to find at any time the precise location of your girlfriend by GPS satellites.
All these functions may be activated / deactivated via simple SMS commands.
A target mobile phone will show no signs of use of these functions.
As a consequence of this your girlfriend can by no means find out that she is under your control.
In case your girlfriend will change her SIM card in her (target) phone for a new one, then after switch on of her (target) phone, your (source) phone will receive a SMS message about the change of the SIM card in her (target) phone and its new phone number.
These unique surveillance functions of target phones may be used to obtain very valuable and by no other means accessible information also from other subjects of your interest {managers, key employees, business partners etc, too.
I like the nostalgic sense of convenience and user-friendliness conjured up by this description. Even better, it reminds me of the comic book ads that used to amuse me as a kid. So I guess we can just forget all about this and go back to sleep, right?
