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For any of you who received a cryptic ad style e-mail purportedly from my g-mail account, I apologize. It appears that my address book was hijacked and anyone in it got the mail. In addition, my entire address book is gone.

Happened once before but the address book didn't disappear that time. Anyone know how that is done?

It was apparently chinese in origin.

Charlie
 
Captains Cat":1nfwf8zl said:
For any of you who received a cryptic ad style e-mail purportedly from my g-mail account, I apologize. It appears that my address book was hijacked and anyone in it got the mail. In addition, my entire address book is gone.

Happened once before but the address book didn't disappear that time. Anyone know how that is done?

It was apparently chinese in origin.

Charlie
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I figured it wasn't you! :D Sorry to hear....I would double check your virus software.
 
Captains Cat":15hsopcn said:
For any of you who received a cryptic ad style e-mail purportedly from my g-mail account, I apologize. It appears that my address book was hijacked and anyone in it got the mail. In addition, my entire address book is gone.

Happened once before but the address book didn't disappear that time. Anyone know how that is done?

It was apparently chinese in origin.

Charlie
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You may not be the only one. Message from local MAC group member.


Yes, they are junk. If you were a Windows user and opened the file, it would likely infect your computer with a virus, trojan or other malware (probably wouldn't do anything to a Mac). The other possibility is that after you opened it you would be asked to provide some personal information like credit card numbers or bank accounts, or send them money for "fees" associated with the contract. The addresses are "spoofed" (faked)- they just pick up the addresses off the net somewhere, or off email distribution lists, just like they got yours.

Some clues to look for:
-You weren't expecting this, and had not had contractual dealings with the "senders".
-It offers to send you money.
-The body of the text doesn't use your name or any other specific information (so it can be sent to many people in a mass mailing, hoping to get afew of them to bite).
-Misspellings and grammatical errors: "decision"is misspelled, There is a missing "to" between "agree" and "all" (a lot of these come from hackers in Nigeria or other countries whose native language is not English).

Peter


On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Caia Cupito wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone received an email from LSM Company saying:

Greetings,
We have prepared a contract and added the paragraphs that you wanted to see in it.
Our lawyers made alterations on the last page. If you agree all the provisions we are ready to make the payment on Friday for the first consignment,
We are enclosing the file with prepared contract. Password:

If necessary, we can send it by fax.
Looking forward to your dicision.<contract_1.zip>

I have not opened these emails and am assuming the emails are junk mail.

I have gotten 4 of these in one day!

Two of them are from bbmorgan@opendoor.com and the other two are from chosmith@opendoor.com

How do they get opendoor.com email addresses?

Thanks,

Caia
 
Hey i did not get any email from you? now I feel left out> I was under the impression we were friend and here you dont even have my email saved, jess :roll:
 
Thanks for the belated comment imike24. Do you have a "dog in this hunt?" I suspect not, I detect spam within the signature block.

Moderator, please delete his post and membership if you agree. :amgry

Charlie
 
That happened to the wifes' yahoo account a few weeks back. They sent spam to everyone on her address book. I did a scan of the system and found malware and removed it but have no idea how effective that was. So she changed accounts. A real pain when this happens.
 
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