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| Author: | ChuckJ [ Mon 10 Oct 2005 18:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Hackers / E-Mail Spoof |
I have been getting a bunch of e-mails returned to me, the problem is that I never sent them, someone has been spoofing my e-mail address to look like I'm sending e-mails and I'm also receiving a bunch of e-mails with attachments from unknown senders, these e-mails were scanned and contain a virus. I'm under attack by a hacker, why I don't know but I wanted to put everyone on alert. If you receive an e-mail from whatever@bail-recovery-directory.com it's not from me so don't open it and definitely don't download any attachments. |
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| Author: | Mark [ Tue 11 Oct 2005 11:08 ] |
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Chuck, I have been receiving these emails as well. This is the second time in the past year this has happened. I believe they are targeting people from this forum because in the past I have received email from Rex's email address that contained a virus. I contacted Rex and he indeed did not send any emails my way. Make sure you're scanning your emails everyone, even if you know the address they are coming from. |
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| Author: | HoundDog [ Thu 13 Oct 2005 16:02 ] |
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Me three!!! My web site keeps sending me all kinds of e-mails from itself to itself and it amounts to about 100 hundred a week or more! |
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| Author: | ChuckJ [ Thu 13 Oct 2005 19:24 ] |
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I think what's happening is that this hacker is somehow spoofing e-mail addresses, he is sending e-mailes with viruses to people that appear to be coming from e-mail addresses associated with our web sites and when he sends one to an invalid e-mail address it gets returned to us. Were not the only ones this is happening to, I have been receiving e-mails with viruses from what appears to be big businesses like newspapers but I know that it's not really coming from these businesses it's the hacker spoofing their e-mail addresses too. It's starting to get annoying, I wish I could find out who is behind it. |
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| Author: | HoundDog [ Fri 14 Oct 2005 13:10 ] |
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Vrus, virus, virus yes it caused my computer here at work to completely crash on monday. I had so many virus infections that my hard drive froze and it had to be replaced. The funny thing is I was just opening norton anti virus to run a check, when it finished my computer froze.... go figure! |
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| Author: | Kathy [ Fri 14 Oct 2005 22:10 ] |
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I keep my Norton antivirus protection set to automatically scan ALL incoming e-mails and any other files I open that contain macros or Microsoft programs such as Word, Excel, etc. It has saved me a world of trouble. I NEVER open an attachment that comes from someone I do not know. I use Incredimail as my replacement to Outlook Express for my ISP e-mail which allows me to "bounce to sender" any spam emails not on my approved list, saying that it was sent to an invalid address. This gets rid of a lot of spam. I also use disposable Sneakemail addresses whenever I have to give an email address to register for anything I have doubts about on a website. If I start to get too much spam in it I just delete that address and create another. It is free for up to 10 and forwards to any permanent address you list. It is much easier to delete a "disposable" e-mail address than to change your permanent one everytime it gets on a spam list. Just some suggestions that I have found beneficial... |
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