Re: Strange E-Mail WAS: Re: Has Anyone Heard of This?
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 2, 2004, 10:57 |
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Staving Andreas Johansson:
>Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
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> > The other ploy I've seen in the past two weeks are messages supposedly
> > from my ISP both at home & at work saying that certain mails couldn't be
> > delivered and if I want to see them I should go to the inbox - in the case
> > of Freeuk, the address was: freeuk.com/inbox/ray.brown/read.php? followed
> > by a sessionid.
>
>I've too received an unusual number of fake "delivery failed" messages
>recently. I'm starting to fear this account will go the way of my old hotmail
>account ...
Somebody who has your email address stored on his computer has been
infected with a virus, which has then spoofed your address in the From:
header. One of the messages it sent with your name on it has bounced.
Happened to me the other day. Fortunately, I'm good at spotting email
viruses, so I haven't been caught out by a dodgy attachment yet.
Pete
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