Have you ever emailed this person?
John
No never.
Is it possible that someone who I have emailed in the past has got a virus which is using their address book contacts?
My comp. comes up clean in all my scans.
Yes it is, the virus will scan all the addresses it finds, then sends mail from all that it finds, so it could be someone you have emailed. Or a site that you have joined and used your email address could have been hacked, and they are using your address, to spam.
John
Hmmmm -interesting.
I have had e-mails from a strange site offering "explicit material" that purport to come from a friend or from someone who has passed on my private address. I have deleted everything and utilised the "unsescribe" option.
I am not a techy whiz kid so if this is normal internet crap than I appologise but it has got me thinking over the last two days.
T'n'H
Thanks (I think!) for your reply.
Jeezus - should I have left well alone?
Am I opening my PC up to MORE problems by going down the unscribe route?
I really do not understand all this.
McC
Just to say that it was me that got the e-mail.
It just said "Hi" with an attachment. It came through in my spam folder......this is what made me wary at first. Second, ES is an estblished member who I believe would not send unsolicited e-mails. I deleted it then contacted him.
I would be interested in how they managed to send it to me as ES and I have never swapped e-mail addys and not many people have my e-mail addy. In fact.......it is about 6 people have the e-mail addy that it came in on. So can anyone enlighten me please...........
Dave_(Confused)_Notts
Unless ES has his e-mail on this site somewhere which's accessible to the masses, then there's no way he could have.
The only thing I can think of is someone is using this site to trawl for e-mail addresses to use to proliferate the spam. If anyone receives any strange looking e-mail then they should delete it. I get lots of unsolicited e-mails to my e-mail address on this site from people who use it to hawk they're ads, might be nothing more than a malicious version of that.
I have a feeling we'll be seeing a few more of these in the next few days/weeks
I was asked privately to respond to this, so here's my input:
The only way the email ady's can be linked thru the site, since ES never directly emailed DN or vice versa, is if both of you are using those email addresses as part of your contact info on this site.
so yes this would mean that we are all open to this happening, as hackers/spammers are uisng robots to trawl the site for ady's and using one against the other. This is true of almost any place on the internet where you input your contact info. I'm having trouble right now with another one of my ady's ... the actual email client was hacked and I have been sent email to this address under the guise of being the network admin saying they needed my credit card info again or my account would be terminated.
Since the only way to really lock down the site against this kind of hacking is expensive, I'd say it's best just to get the word out and that no one should open an email from another site member unless notified... also, turning up the spam guards on whatever email addresses you are using with this site.
if one or both of you are not using the email addresses that this happened with, on this site, then that's a whole diff. story...
ive had loads in last two weeks,,,
todays one was from a :? :?
also had one in last week from
Wyn David"
saying,...This is genuine mail
I saw you on Swinging Heaven and thought I would ask
Do you want to buy some Viagra ??
Great prices, Great quality just let me know
W
then we had a mail back from him saying
Hi Kinky,
I bought 50,000 just over a month ago and only have just over 9,000 left they are going like hot cakes and I have some very very satisfied clients !! my tablets are called Vega and are generic as Viagra is a name thats patented, you can find them on the net for over £4 per tablet, I would suggest you try a pack first, I say this because I know you will be back !!! but if you want more then fine, my prices are as below I do not give free samples as it would cost me lot's but you can have a one off trial pack for £15 delivered to your door 48 hours after cleared monies. Each pack contains 8 x 100mg tablets
Prices:
1 to 9 packs @ £18 per pack
10 to 49 packs @ £16 per pack
50 to 99 packs @ £15 per pack
100 + packs @ £14 per pack
Cheers
hes sold alot aint he
Hi folks, just to make you all aware that there is a virus going around utilising MSN as a way to infect emails, please be very careful when accepting file transfers and do not add anyone who you may not know.
I will see if i can remember the fix for this later on as it's been a long day.
today one is from
its someone useing this site whos doing it
I never get any emails !!!
I wouldn't mind even if it was just one with a virus............. Atleast I would feel like someone loved me !!
Feel a bit like Bridget Jones when she checks her answerphone and it says u have no messages...... not even from your Mother !!
This is a common email trick called "Spoofing", where the sender forges the "From:" email address.
There are a number of new viruses (virii?) out and about so make sure your Virus Definitions are up to date. And don't open any emails with attachments from people you don't know or you aren't expecting.
I once had a account which I had not accessed for about 6 weeks, when I did I had 78 emails, about a dozen of which were from SH members who I KNEW had not e-mailed me.
Most of them had a nasty little virus attachment with them.
lhk
Kat
They're getting cleverer all the time. This is the latest scam:
As a tip, if you get plain spam (selling viagra or penis extensions etc) NEVER use the unsubscribe option. Just register with and send them the spam. They'll take care of reporting it to the correct abuse department on your behalf without letting on that you even exist.
Not sure if it helps but here goes - I have to deal with Microsoft alerts for work - if you're MSN then check out for the latest virus (April 2005)
McAfee is a very good AV provider and it would be worth anyone's time to take advantage of a 90 free trial.
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