Do any other DUer's Get Weird E-Mail

[hang a left]

For a few months now I get email messages from senders I do not know. When I click on the email subject there is no message. Just 5 minutes ago I opened email that said they were "response to post #10." So I clicked on it thinking maybe it was from DU and it was the same, no message. Also I couldn't log in today and had to go to a different user on my computer in order to be able to.

Are they after me?

[ixion]

1. be very careful with email...

I've noticed a huge increase in unfriendly email, that are hard to dechiper from the user/subject. I screen every email that comes into my system. There are pop mail monitors out there (I use an old, but handy, piece of freeware called "Magic Mail Monitor" ) that shows you the entire email, including the header and the contets of any attachments, or if there is malicious code within. You should never download email onto you machine (especially if you use MS Outlook) if you don't know what's in it, IMHO.


also, if you were unable to login with your regular user, you should remove that user immediately. Hopefully it wasn't your administrator.

[hlthe2b]

2. dunno, but I sure don't want all that BUSHCHENEY04 email

that is coming my way. How the hell did they get MY email? Only good think about AOL is that I can instantly report it as spam with a single touch of a button. 'Of course, AOl is probably sending the damned shit.

Oh, yeah Marc Raciciot, I'm surely going to make a big donation to YOUR boy.....

[Solomon]

5. Come on now. Admit it.

You know why you get repug solicitations. :evilgrin:

Just joking. Couldn't resist.

[kanrok]

3. I refuse to open any e-mail from a source I don't know

[RoeBear]

4. I've been getting a dozen or so...

...emails claiming to be patches for Microsoft. All with nice little attachments that I never open.

[Ilsa]

6. They all want us to enlarge the household

penises.

Or work from home.

or look at some dirty pictures.

[karlschneider]

7. Oh yeah, I suppose everyone does. I got one last night that said

something like "your......

Wait, I think it's still in my trash box...yeah, here it is:
[e-mail]


Important notice

We have just charged your credit card for money laundry service in amount of $234.65 (because you are either child pornography webmaster or deal with dirty money, which require us to layndry them and then send to your checking account).
If you feel this transaction was made by our mistake, please press "No".
If you confirm this transaction, please press "Yes" and fill in the form below.


Enter your credit card number here:

Enter your credit card expiration date:

====================================================================
Weird, huh? Maybe I should copy this to somebody at geocities....
I guess it's a lame attempt to get CC numbers, but who would be stupid enough to ....uh.....well never mind.
:evilgrin:

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Here's what you do.

I got the same email, and is both spam and a scam, so ISP's tend to hate this stuff and deal harshly with them.

First, find out where it really came from, and you have to see all the headers to do that. In Eudora, there's a "blah,blah,blah" button, but other email programs have their own way.

Then, you poke the IP address, in this case 24.103.101.179, into the search box at http://www.iks-jena.de/cgi-bin/whois to make sure who it is. The results, which will be in english, will probably give an email address for complaints.

Then, you forward the entire email to "abuse," or whatever at that host.


I sent this to [e-mail]:

(I left out the body here, and eliminated some personal information)

--------------------------
I received this email, which appears to have come through your servers.

It's a common scam, which by now I'm sure you are familiar with, and I trust you will take the appropriate measures.

Thank you.



Status: U
Return-Path: <xxxxx>
Received: from rogers.com (<24.103.101.179>)
by carlin.mail.atl.earthlink.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id xxxxx
for <xxxx>; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:37:37 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from xxxxxxx.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (xxxx.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com <24.103.101.179>)
by rogers.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id xxxxx
for <xxxxxx>; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 04:43:08 -0400 (EST)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 04:43:06 -0400 (EST)
From: CarderPortal.Org <xxxx>
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Personal
Reply-To: xxxxxx
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
To: xxxxxx
Subject: You credit card has been charged for $234.65
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------576856078817616"
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I then received this--

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**

Thank you for your email. We have taken appropriate action with this subscriber under the terms and conditions of our End User agreement.

Rogers strictly enforces abuses against their End User Agreement and customers who abuse the network risk having their service terminated. Should you encounter any further Internet Abuse originating within the Rogers network, please do not hesitate to contact us again at [e-mail]. To better serve you we would appreciate it if you could include the offending IP in the subject line of your email.