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Post by Chris_Sav on Apr 3, 2015 9:34:43 GMT
Received several of these a few minutes ago allegedly from Dave Alder stuck in the Ukraine without money.
I would guess a lot of bar billiards land may receive them.
They are not genuine and are phishing emails and not from him personally!
Do not react to them. If you look carefully the fraudulent return email address has an extra c after aebbasec.
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Post by barbelman on Apr 3, 2015 10:44:16 GMT
Yes I got two of these and realised the return address was fraudulent - I was still worried for a moment!
Is Dave aware of this and of the fact he's in the Ukraine?
Tony
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Post by milko on Apr 3, 2015 10:58:57 GMT
Me too!!  |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Apr 3, 2015 11:06:01 GMT
Have tried to get hold of the elusive Mt Alder without success, have sent text
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Post by barbelman on Apr 3, 2015 11:45:03 GMT
Have tried to get hold of the elusive Mt Alder without success, have sent text Perhaps he IS in the Ukraine!  (I sent DA a txt too) |
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Post by Colemanator on Apr 3, 2015 16:22:33 GMT
I have one as well  shall we have a whip round  |
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Post by milko on Apr 4, 2015 3:05:53 GMT
So has my wife Lin and she isn't even a member of this forum! so has Dave's computer been hacked into ?
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Post by Chris_Sav on Apr 4, 2015 7:30:35 GMT
So has my wife Lin and she isn't even a member of this forum! so has Dave's computer been hacked into ? It's absolutely nothing to do with membership of this forum Keith.
Either Dave's email account has been hacked, or someone else with Dave's email address in their address book has been hacked. The spammers then pick an address from the address book and set up the almost identically named account and try to extort sympathy money from friends of the target addressee.
The likely cause is clicking on one of the many phishing emails that are flying around, never ever click on anything in an email from an unknown source, NOT EVEN THE UNSUBSCRIBE BUTTON if you are suspicious. All links within a phishing email are triggers to install Trojan viruses on your computer and attachments contain macros to run commands to do the same. Look for spelling mistakes or poor wording in emails to confirm they are dodgy.
If you make the mistake above then clicking on anything gives permission to install and circumvents your anti-virus (not all of which are equally effective). I also run Malwarebytes alongside Windows Security Essentials. Malwarebytes also gives some protection against web pages that try to maliciously install stuff on your computer. No protection is 100% against all threats as the protection is always playing catch-up. There is no substitute for commonsense!
I've just recovered the data from a friend's computer that had the hard drive trashed and found five viruses and Trojans on it despite his professed carefulness!
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(I sent DA a txt too)
shall we have a whip round 