more email scams

[Beth]

I have just checked my bulk email box and it was full of dodgy emails.

so I thought I would pass them on to you chaps, they all have attachments and no I did not click them! :lol:

one states its from the FBI as I have alledgly been on illegal websites...yeah right what ever! :rolleyes:
the source of the email is from W32.Sober.K@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to email addresses gathered from a compromised computer. The email will be in either English or German.
and the email is Officer@fbi.gov

the others say Thanks for your registration!
We have received your payment.

For more detailed information, read the attached text. umm no I havent done either there!

people are so cheeky they try to get you to click anything, so be warned everyone, I dont know what these emails contain or if its one of those click on this and we charge you through your phone bill etc.

[Matthew]

Oooooer, thanks Beth, these types of e-mail get more and more inventive! :blink: :)

[Eeyore]

Thanks for the warning Beth :) These email scammers are a real pain ;)

[vernon]

the cheeky boogerts, although ... "fbi.gov" .. i always think of ".gov" as a uk domain... but its ".gov.uk " for here isn't it?

thanks for the reminder beth :)

I keep getting the same sort of spam email for viagra sent to my pop3 email, from different addresses so when i block it more comes, i've given up and just delete em now, about one a week.

oh and i got my very first virus a couple of weeks ago, it was quite exciting!!.. Norton spotted it straight away which is good, first time i've seem Norton do anything apart from stopping Autocad from opening :P

[bazranz]

these scams are :angry: annoying. I am sick of being offered £millions for letting someone store money in my account,:doh: tired of being offered various ways to improve my s*x life,:mad: and worst of all, someone using my hotmail address to send viruses. I did stop that one, but these scams get more and more ingenious, and harder to stop. :badmood:

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

someone using my hotmail address to send viruses

heres a little tip to stop virus' spreading through your contacts

first off create a new contact in your address book, in the space where you add the contacts e-mail address type something like mmm@mmm.mmm. make sure you do this for your web based mail accounts as well as any outlook type programs. now if a virus attempts to send mail from your address you will be alerted by your e-mail program that one of the addresses is incorrect, thus alerting you to the virus unauthorised access and halting the sending of the infected mail.

i do hope that made sense :unsure:

[bazranz]

That is excellent advice, and thanks very much. I shall visit hotmail later and sort that out. :thumbs: :clap2:

[Annabel]

:( we had that FBI one at work, and our finance boss saw it first and thought the worst until he had a think about it!!!

it is such a waste of our time and energy. :banghead:

[Beth]

I t used to be bad enough when my old boss came in waving the phone bill around, going through everyones personal numbers, I can imagine your boss walking in a nd saying "right, hands up whose been using the firms time to visit porn sites as you have been rumbled by the FBI?!!" :lol: :o

have you ever had the ones that say " I really enjoyedf last night, when can we do it again?" ??
A friend of mine who has a very very jealous spouse had several of them and the spose saw and nearly killed my friend! (I mean like actually nearly killed them):o as they really thought he had been playing away :nono:

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

Beth, :bigeyes: that is scary and i bet it's happened to others too.