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simpo two

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92,990 posts

295 months

Thursday 26th October 2006
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Had an e-mail appear in Mailwasher entitled 'Mail Server Report'. Had a quick look - text said something like 'your computer is sending out worms - to stop this please install the attached software'.

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aldi

9,292 posts

267 months

Thursday 26th October 2006
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Well you have to give them 10/10 for effort...

Road_Terrorist

5,591 posts

272 months

Thursday 26th October 2006
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Yeah I had something similar the other week, claiming to be from some company and that my PC was sending worm emails and needed a windoze update to fix it with a legit sounding name, and they had conveniently attached a zip file containing the fix. I gave the zip a virus scan and it indeed was a virus, but I expect quite a few people will fall for it rolleyes

Touching Cloth

11,706 posts

269 months

Thursday 26th October 2006
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Just had the same, was it from Selectplans?

simpo two

Original Poster:

92,990 posts

295 months

Thursday 26th October 2006
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Touching Cloth said:
Just had the same, was it from Selectplans?

Don't think so, it was from a more domestic-looking address. That's so often the giveaway - 'Mail Server Report' is quite a good title for looking official but when you see it's from sdjhswuerhc@hotmail.ru it rather gives the game away...

road2ruin

6,532 posts

246 months

Thursday 26th October 2006
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simpo two said:
Touching Cloth said:
Just had the same, was it from Selectplans?

Don't think so, it was from a more domestic-looking address. That's so often the giveaway - 'Mail Server Report' is quite a good title for looking official but when you see it's from sdjhswuerhc@hotmail.ru it rather gives the game away...


Really? I just sent that person my intenet bank login details! Dos that mean I am now being electronically raped? Never mind I still have those shares in a Nigerian diamond mine I bought for £20k, they told me will be worth £40k next month. Bless them so considerate.

roadsweeper

3,789 posts

304 months

Thursday 26th October 2006
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road2ruin said:
Really? I just sent that person my intenet bank login details! Dos that mean I am now being electronically raped? Never mind I still have those shares in a Nigerian diamond mine I bought for £20k, they told me will be worth £40k next month. Bless them so considerate.
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