Bergie
thanks for the heads up. haven’t seen anything but will keep my eyes open.
stay safe
Joe
I haven’t recieved this one yet but I do get many ‘spoofs’ each week.
A general rule of thumb is to never click on a link in a suspect email and remember that no respectable business is going to ask you for identifying info through an email.
Also, report all suspect ‘spoofs’ to your ISP. Most ISP’s will investigate or forward to proper authoruties.
I’m on yahoo and that’s exactly what I do…if I get one that says “[no subject]” I look at the sender’s name, if that doesn’t ring a bell with me, into the trash folder with you and off with your spamming virtual e-head!!! (which means I delete them)[:D] If anyone e-mails me anything…please…try to get a subject title that will strike a tone with my less-than-fully-functioning brain.
Recently, our corporate e-mail addresses were bombarded by e-mails written in German - the attachments contained a virus. A couple of weeks ago, my personal e-mail address received an e-mail that advised me my account info needed to be updated with Sun Trust Bank. Hmmmmmmm…I don’t have an account with that bank, and, I don’t even know if that is a real banking firm.
I also recently had read our gov’t. wants to impose huge fines (I believe it was $100,000 or more) for those who install “key logger programs” onto your computer. A key logger will save all of your typing so that these scammers can log into your computer to find account numbers, passwords, etc.
Everyone on-line should purchase some kind of anti-virus, firewall, and spy blocking programs for their home computers. Last month, a study was performed by the Baltimore Sun newspaper by placing 2 computers on-line without any type of hacker or spyware protection. They had found each computer was getting “hit” about 360 times per hour by hackers, scammers, etc.
I wi***hese so called “hackers” would spend their time on making “good programs” instead of making people miserable.
Another thought - I’ve read that most “free screen savers” and “Warning: viruses and spyware slows your computer down - check your computer now Free” are other gimmicks to infect your computer once you’ve clicked onto these “free offers”. The “free computer check” got me once, and it hijacked my computer so that no matter what address I typed in, I would get the “page can’t be displayed” and only “StopZilla’s” anti-spyware web site would work. They were the ones who had hijacked my computer!
Amtrak- Tom, my 13 year old fell for the free virus scan/scam. Played hell getting rid of that one! I’ve been getting the one from the guy with the frozen overseas assets that wants my bank #'s so he can transfer it over. It’s my favorite, but the sad part is that there are probably good trusting people that fall for that. Willy
It’s also wise to set your email preferences to “block html images.” Altho it can make some email difficult to read (“Greenfrog” uses lots of html images, for example), it’s worth it to block these, as they’re a common way of installing spyware on your hard drive.
In any case, delete first, ask questions later. Html images can be virtually invisible. And once you’ve opened the email, it’s already too late.
Even if wasn’t informed of this I know I could talk to Bernie about my account if it ever got suspended . . . it never once got suspended but thre was a topic sometime ago about some people who went to forums only to spam and use fake emails . . .
But thanks for the warning I checked my emails gmail and yahoo nothing . . . I have that spam folder in yahoo . . .
But the coolest blocker is Jesus Christ . . .
The image of him holding on to the top of the car with wind blowing his hair and everything flying away from him . . .
Matt