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| Tom_T |
  Jan 9 2012, 12:03 PM
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TMI....  Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California 
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The last few months I've noticed a huge uptick in email phishing scams coming to my email.
First they were the generic "...buy our cheap viagraa & go see alice....", cheep canadian meds, etc. & your account with "X" has been suspended BS. Then they started with bogus Linked In messages, which is more business oriented, than just spaced book & flitter social networking, so I thought those would be less prone to such abuse (apparently so hoped the trout phishers too). Now this weekend I started getting emails from my uncle who's been dead for about 10 years ..... HOLY CRAP - MESSAGES FROM THE DEAD!!?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) ..... so apparently someone in my family who still had his old email on their computer got hacked. He was the one whose `58 Vette & 32 Roadster I helped build/resto in the 60's, so I was hoping he was letting me know where to find them today as barn finds! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) So you cannot even trust stuff from folks you know, and this is just a friendly heads-up to all to check any suspicious or even marginally questionable emails & the true destinations of their links - not to mention avoiding opening anything .zip etc.! To the hackers & phishers of the world, go get a real job and do something honest, worthwhile & useful to society & the world, and stop trying to live as blood sucking scum! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) .... and before someone suggests that I use spam filtering, I had to turn off Earthlink's stuff cuz it cuts out too many legit business & even some 914 related communications. However, I do leave all the email on their server until I can go through & sort out the trash & scams, before I download anything, and look at their email addys, link locations, attachments, etc. for safety sake. Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
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| Elliot Cannon |
Jan 9 2012, 12:41 PM
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914 Guru Group: Retired Members Posts: 8,487 Joined: 29-December 06 From: Paso Robles Ca. (Central coast) Member No.: 7,407 Region Association: None 
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I do NOT open any forwarded emails. My email server was hacked twice and they stole all my contacts. These cretins are less than (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif)
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| Elliot Cannon |
Jan 9 2012, 12:41 PM
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914 Guru Group: Retired Members Posts: 8,487 Joined: 29-December 06 From: Paso Robles Ca. (Central coast) Member No.: 7,407 Region Association: None
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I do NOT open any forwarded emails. My email server was hacked twice and they stole all my contacts. These cretins are less than (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif)
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| Tom_T |
Jan 9 2012, 01:57 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) & (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) ...twice! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
If one could only crawl through the ethernet with a baseball bat to where these jerks live/work...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dead horse.gif) ...note that they are the part of the horse last over the fence! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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