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#187057 - 03/03/04 11:56 AM spammers
shboom Offline
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Registered: 02/27/04
Posts: 741
Loc: Victoria, British Columbia
Watch yourself out there people. An incident that happened at my work. Fortunately no damage was done, it was caught in time.
My wife & I happen to work in the same building, so she phoned me to say she'd recieved a warning from our IT division about offensive e-mail traced back to her. A little back ground. My wife does a lot of work for our employee benefit association, which she does at home in the evening, and e-mails her work to herself at her workplace.
After receiving this e-mail about offensive data, she assumed it had something to do with our home set-up and something attached itself to it.
To make a long story short (if that's possible)the spammers are getting more and more sofisticated. Right clicking this particular email to check the properties, one particular character looked questionable (Upper case as opposed to lower case). We contacted our IT division, and they confirmed that it was just spam, but very well disquised spam, in that these people had somehow gotten various aspects of our employers electronic ID,obviously it's been chucked away, but I just wanted to let others know that these idiots are getting better & better.
Be careful. If your suspicious, don't do anything with it, but report it. Fortunately I was able to put her mind at rest that one, she hadn't done anything wrong from our home computer, and two, she'll be more aware that these ***holes prey on people who might not otherwise suspect their evil intentions.
Again..be careful my friends.

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#187058 - 03/03/04 12:27 PM Re: spammers
travlin'easy Offline
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Registered: 12/08/02
Posts: 15576
Loc: Forest Hill, MD USA
This happened to me about three months ago when a spammer fired several thousand messages out using my website as a carrier. I received several phone calls from irate people that claimed they were spammed hundreds of time from my site. It took a week of work to find the bastard that did this, but I understand he is now being prosecuted.

Cheers,

Gary
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#187059 - 03/03/04 01:28 PM Re: spammers
shboom Offline
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Registered: 02/27/04
Posts: 741
Loc: Victoria, British Columbia
Yeah. I hear ya. This one's quite sofisticated. Somehow attaches to your e-mail, not a web site. Ya gotta wonder what makes these people tick!!
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