Chain Emails

[Airborne]

Has anybody come across this ?

 

Some so-called friend sends you an Email that is obvious to a 5 year old it is a spam job and possibly a source of infection ?

 

I got an example the other day from a friend. It is no more than a Hackers piece of mischief. As soon as you action it, reply, forward or click any of the addresses shown, you become a member of the chain and your address is added to the list. From that point on, any of the addresses shown can send you an Email and your account could be theoretically clogged up if they all did it.

 

It is also a favourite technique for virus introduction.

 

Obviously I immediately deleted it.

[neill10]

Yes any number and missives from the FBI,UN and IMF telling me my $20.000.000 can now be transfered, 'aint I the lucky one ?

Neill

[Airborne]

Yes any number and missives from the FBI,UN and IMF telling me my $20.000.000 can now be transfered, 'aint I the lucky one ?

Neill

 

That`s funny !

[neill10]

Yes I'm still waiting for them to come through, and I do need the money as my bank account seems to have emptyed srange but true.

Neill

[KenB]

I have removed the attachment from Airborne's first post ( with his permission ) as it showed multiple e-mail addresses.

 

Phishing emails, as they are called, are a sad fact of life these days.

I have had a number which look, at first glance, as if they have come from my bank.

The early ones were obvious as they had spelling and grammar mistakes. The more recent ones do look the part.

 

All who read this should be aware that your bank will never email you asking you to input any secure data.

 

Also - if the e-mail sounds too good to be true .......then it is exactly that.

 

DO NOT reply to these emails - DO NOT open attachments if you don't know the sender .........simply delete them.

 

You have to be constantly on the alert - phishing emails are not going to go away.

[Plastic Nev]

Funny, but also phishing attempts are also getting more common by ordinary mail or snail mail as some call it. Being the aware sort of guy I am, I got one from my ISP offering some better deal. I was immediately suspicious because of what they were asking for, and got in touch directly with them by phone using the number I have, only to find out it was actually for real. It also wasn't that good a deal so I turned it down any way. However, better safe than sorry.

I did explain that they should actually take note of the way the scammers are now operating and to be a little more aware that their own mail or E Mail could be taken as a scam. Therefore be a little better at wording their communications if they want folk to take them a little more seriously.

The guy at the other end agreed with me and thanked me for my time.

 

Nev.