Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Spam got me...

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Matt Ross wrote:
> I'm out sick today, but was feeling well enough to get up for a bit, so I
> thought I'd check email to see if I could do anything from home. Not much
> from work, so I checked my home email using Outlook with Outclass (I forgot
> who suggested Outclass, but it's been very successful). I always check to
> make sure Outclass hasn't mislabled something as spam, which it did the
> first week, but not since, so I was a bit perturbed when I saw "Due Balance,
> payment missed". Not quite thinking, I opened it, to find about 20 lines of
> random words, and an image loading telling me about a debt elimination
> service.
> 
> Fortunately, there was no identifier in the image URL, but I do feel rather
> stupid now. Anybody else fall for one like that?
> 
> 

I got a spam recently telling me that I should contact the FBI about an 
accusation that I had stolen $2100 from some account.  The web link 
would have downloaded a windows program which would have done who knows 
what.  Fortunately Unix was immune.



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Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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