sorry im not promoting here, just a question i wondered if anyof you guys could help with,
ive had 3 e-mails off suposedly which have gone into my junk mail saying different thing such as , confimation to say my password has been changed , another saying i need to fill in some form and another saying i have been using my account to send unsolicited spam emails, all which tell me i have to open an attachment or my account will be deleted.
has anyone else had something simmeler and is it really from , or someone trying to send me a virus??/
thanks lou xxx
oh i have tried to contact but its all just auto things
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It's spam, Lou - just bin them and don't worry. I've had them on all my different email accounts.
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Quote by fem_4_taboo
sorry im not promoting here, just a question i wondered if anyof you guys could help with,
ive had 3 e-mails off suposedly which have gone into my junk mail saying different thing such as , confimation to say my password has been changed , another saying i need to fill in some form and another saying i have been using my account to send unsolicited spam emails, all which tell me i have to open an attachment or my account will be deleted.
has anyone else had something simmeler and is it really from , or someone trying to send me a virus??/
thanks lou xxx
oh i have tried to contact but its all just auto things
fem_4_taboo
Do not open that attachment as its a virus, someone on of the site has also sent me it, luckily my antivirus picked it up...and because we run out own email server we got the ip address of where it came from and are forwarding it to the authorities
i think this is something the mods should deffo look at now as its getting serious
the person who sent both you and me this is a member on these forums as there ip address matched with my website logs ( the pic at the bottom of all my post's is hosted on my own website so i can see that the ip address of all that see that pic )
fem_4_taboo..also, did your email you got look like this only altered to say it came from ?
Dear Happyzone Member,
Your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of unsolicited spam messages during the recent week. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and confirm the attached document so you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to cancel your membership.
Virtually yours,
The Happyzone Support Team
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Happyzone Antivirus -
........................................
notice how it says
Virtually yours,
The Happyzone Support Team
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Happyzone Antivirus -
at the botom of the email...
Happyzone email server has no such thing as a Support Team or antivirus on the actual server as its my husbands own little email server
.......................................
this is from the properties of that email
Return-Path:
Received: from host (note i have not shown the ip). () by server (602LAN SUITE 2004) id 33286d37 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:38:12 +0100
From:
To:
Subject: *DETECTED* Online User Violation
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:31:48 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0008_ "
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-LNS-SpamCheck: NOSPAM
we have all the logs from our website, all the logs from our email server and also the original email saved for prove if any mods need to see it...
Please help here mods or mark as its serious
we are willing to give mark or a mod our phone number if needed
sharon, yup identical.
Dear user fem_4_taboo,
You have successfully updated the password of your account.
If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact customer service at:
Thank you for using !
The Support Team
Dear user fem_4_taboo,
It has come to our attention that your User Profile ( x ) records are out of date. For further details see the attached document.
Thank you for using !
The Support Team
+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
+++ Antivirus
this is a copy of two of them, i copied and pasted
lou xxxx
Dear user fem_4_taboo,
You have successfully updated the password of your account.
If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact customer service at:
Thank you for using !
The Support Team
Dear user fem_4_taboo,
It has come to our attention that your User Profile ( x ) records are out of date. For further details see the attached document.
Thank you for using !
The Support Team
+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
+++ Antivirus
this is a copy of two of them, i copied and pasted
lou xxxx
bad isn't it
has anyone else had a sim email ??
if you do get one, don't open it but also don't delete it, keep it as prove for now if needed..
if you don't open the attachment you won't get the virus... i will find out the name of the virus now...
edit, the virus name is -MM ( worm )
sharon
has anyone else had a sim email ??
if you do get one, don't open it but also don't delete it, keep it as prove for now if needed..
if you don't open the attachment you won't get the virus... i will find out the name of the virus now...
edit, the virus name is -MM ( worm )
sharon
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That doesn't mean the user is actually knowingly sending you this email. Worms are self propergating so if what you say is correct Sharon, then the user of the IP address you have at that time would of been infected with that worm and didn't know it. Everytime that person would go onto a web page or send emails they would be giving that worm more addresses to send itself to.
Also please note that a web IP address does not stay the same unless you have a static one. Those however are mainly used for businesses only and no home user would really need one.
The thing you do need to mark down is the MAC address. This would be difficult to get hold of if you don't have the correct 'tools' for the job. You could always contact the ISP of that IP address and let them deal with it. It is after all in their own best interests.
Please just don't go accusing (or naming) people as they themselves might of been a victim of this worm email scam. It needs to be handled with tact. If they are guilty then chances are they will run and hide. If not then they wouldn't mind giving up their IP, MAC and email addresses to the ISP and authorities to investigate it further.
Also please note that a web IP address does not stay the same unless you have a static one. Those however are mainly used for businesses only and no home user would really need one.
The thing you do need to mark down is the MAC address. This would be difficult to get hold of if you don't have the correct 'tools' for the job. You could always contact the ISP of that IP address and let them deal with it. It is after all in their own best interests.
Please just don't go accusing (or naming) people as they themselves might of been a victim of this worm email scam. It needs to be handled with tact. If they are guilty then chances are they will run and hide. If not then they wouldn't mind giving up their IP, MAC and email addresses to the ISP and authorities to investigate it further.
Quote by fem_4_taboo
well until you open the attachments maybe
xxlouxx
yeah alot of people would just delete these type of messages but its the people that actually open the attachment i feel sorry for..a worm could meen a reinstall and that cold cost money if they don't have the knowhow...
the the email i was referring to was one that was actually tailored for me..the same as the one fem_4_taboo had got...
sending a worm just to destroy someone's pc is just dam right cruel and thats why we would like to see it sorted
I used to get them too. I wouldn't open them, and I put a block on 20 to 30 different phrases within the letter, and the barrage of addresses they use.
I also reported them back to .
Once I had to change my email address to get rid of them.
They seemed to contain the stinger virus when I was getting them. You can download antistinger softwear on the net.
I also reported them back to .
Once I had to change my email address to get rid of them.
They seemed to contain the stinger virus when I was getting them. You can download antistinger softwear on the net.
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Quote by sharon_2005
the the email i was referring to was one that was actually tailored for me..the same as the one fem_4_taboo had got...
Just to clear things up with personalisation. This is very easy for any worm or auto mailer. They can catch names out of your email address and some just use the begining part of it ie everything before the @ sign.
The 'better' ones act like spiders. They will be reading the web pages you visit (ie SH) mark down all the email addresses found and any that are like them then even read around that email tag for common names or the screen name like fem_4_taboo and sharon_2005. These things can easily be automated to read the coding so again this doesn't mean it was hand personalised for you.
If it came out with your real name, last name and mobile number then I would be very suprised.
Quote by mattmoleman
That doesn't mean the user is actually knowingly sending you this email. Worms are self propergating so if what you say is correct Sharon, then the user of the IP address you have at that time would of been infected with that worm and didn't know it. Everytime that person would go onto a web page or send emails they would be giving that worm more addresses to send itself to.
Also please note that a web IP address does not stay the same unless you have a static one. Those however are mainly used for businesses only and no home user would really need one.
The thing you do need to mark down is the MAC address. This would be difficult to get hold of if you don't have the correct 'tools' for the job. You could always contact the ISP of that IP address and let them deal with it. It is after all in their own best interests.
Please just don't go accusing (or naming) people as they themselves might of been a victim of this worm email scam. It needs to be handled with tact. If they are guilty then chances are they will run and hide. If not then they wouldn't mind giving up their IP, MAC and email addresses to the ISP and authorities to investigate it further.
there ip address has been static for a while now as its shown on my website logs just about every day
And i do know that a worm can alter the email it sends to make it look correct
if it had been a Trojan then i would of alerted someone sooner than this rather than contact a mod like i did to ask the user of that ip address to message me so i could warn them about it..
the imformation we have here is
the ip address, the mac address, there isp and there rough location...
were not blaming them for this as my husband does know how worms work, we just wanted to give the user that is either infected with this worm or send a worm the chance to pm us before we reported it, thats all
...........i think we were being quite fair
1 thing i must say though that my husband just told me
worms only normally send themselves to people you have in an address book...they don't as a rule pick up on email addresses that you see on webpages unless there of a better class
( obviously not written by m$
)Sharon
