The following arrived this evening in my email.
Has anyone had this sort of contact?
Should I just his delete?
The mail lists 9 attachments but I have not looked at them.
Merv
Dear E-mail User ,
We noticed your account is open in one other location with network IP
address (212.181.171.66)
Hi Merv
Yeh, just delete. Just another spam attempt.
I myself have had a day of Telstra emails telling me I received an MMS
(picture message) from mobile number (with the Australian number
being different every time and an attached zip file for me to look at.
Twenty of them so far
Thanks Daniel. The deed is done!
Merv
On 14/11/12 8:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
Hi Merv
Yeh, just delete. Just another spam attempt.
I myself have had a day of Telstra emails telling me I received an MMS
(picture message) from mobile number (with the Australian number
being
On 15/11/2012, at 8:12 AM, Merv Bond m...@iinet.net.au wrote:
Yeh, just delete. Just another spam attempt.
I myself have had a day of Telstra emails telling me I received an MMS
(picture message) from mobile number (with the Australian
number being different every time and an
Yeh they do a semi good job.
The other thing I find funny with them (and a dead give away) is that it says
its an MMS message, which is generally a picture message , so it would be a jpg
- no need to compress it to a zip file. Lol.
Good try though. Lol.
I must have been popular yesterday -
I run Thunderbird as my email client (intel iMac OS X 10.5.8) and I have
received an email with the following message:
You have exceeded the email quota limit of 450MB and you need to expand
the e-mail quota before the next 48 hours.if you do not update your
e-mail account in 2012, you must do
I have forwarded mine on Scam Report.
I did not click on the link obviously.
This week we have had three phone calls from overseas saying we need help
with our Microsoft program and Windows computer!
The bad guys are clearly working overtime!
Lloyd
On 29/01/12 6:56 AM, Merv Bond
Hi Merv,
It is a scam email... Just delete it!
Cheers,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPad
On 29/01/2012, at 6:56 AM, Merv Bond m...@iinet.net.au wrote:
I run Thunderbird as my email client (intel iMac OS X 10.5.8) and I have
received an email with the following message:
You have exceeded the
Yes Merv, delete it.
It's snuck through your ISP's SPAM filter so now it needs some 'fleshware
intervention strategies'.
I.e. You've gotta do something and figure it out.
Is it from someone you know or a business you deal with?
Does the subject or topic make sense? Is it relevant or
Ih have received a very convincing e-mail:
Your friend XXX wants to get together using Skype.
To talk, IM and video chat with all your friends for free simply download
Skype. After you've installed the free software simply add your friend's Skype
Name - rick.versteegh - and you'll be
Thank you Folks for responding.
The email has now been deleted.
One good thing from the event is that I realise that I do need to delete
emails where no further action is required or a paper trail is not
required.
Regards
Merv
The baddies are getting more sophisticated in their fishing.
By
Eugene,
Clearly I haven't seen the entire email, but if the link you are seeing is
a subdomain or sub subdomain of skype.com, then unless someone has
successfully hacked Skype's DNS (which would be a major event), then it is
legitimate. If it isn't actually skype.com as the domain, it is a
Received an email this morning with an attachment NAME.scr
Strange thing is that I can not find the email to which the document
was attached in my IN box.
Is this a new virus?
Merv
--
Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must
also believe in order to see.
Use the following to find the meaning of .scr
http://www.extsearch.com/
Bob
Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote:
Received an email this morning with an attachment NAME.scr
Strange thing is that I can not find the email to which the document
was attached in my IN box.
Is this a new virus?
Merv
Received an email this morning with an attachment NAME.scr
Strange thing is that I can not find the email to which the document
was attached in my IN box.
Is this a new virus?
No, it's probably an old virus. You can safely ignore it, unless you
send it to any windows using friends.
Thanks,
Received an email this morning with an attachment NAME.scr
Strange thing is that I can not find the email to which the document
was attached in my IN box.
Is this a new virus?
No, it is not a new virus.
It is an old virus, that has been around for a bit over a year now.
Anything that has a:
Not all .scr files are a virus they can also be one of the following four
.Fax
Program: FAXVIEW
.Screen Saver
Program: MS WINDOWS
.Screen Snapshot (various programs)
.Script
The reason a lot of them can be a virus is that they can be a written script
that someone has written as a virus.
It
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