[ravinraven]

I thought that would get your attention.

This is a real alert. An e-mail came to me the other day from support@microsoft.com. The subject was "your details" or something like that. It contained an attachment.

My Norton virus checker eliminated the virus from the attachment. I deleted the email and deleted it from the trash bucket fast.

I then warned everyone on my list.

Just now I got an e-mail from Arizona saying that the virus made it through the firewall of one semiconductor company and sent files all over the planet.

The clue is that microsoft NEVER sends attachments. They send links to where the info they wish to share can be found.

This is an example of a phony "from" line in an e-mail.

rr

[bedlamite]

Microsoft virus

Redundant.

[dev_null]

I've been getting about 5 - 10 of these a week for the last couple of months. I set up a filter to delete them, along with the ones that purport to come from ebay asking for my bank account #, ATM pin #, and credit card # (can't believe people actually fall for that).

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[Boats]

Get a Mac.:evil:

Obligatory gun content: Microsoft should be shot.

[foghornl]

Just like all the variations on the "Nigerian 419" scam.....
or if you have or had used AOL, probaly got e-mail supposedly from Steve Case, needing your username/password to be verified to some other e-mail address. (like AOBilling@fraudmail.com
Or the pager/cell-fone calls to an "809" area code that was actually some off-shore place that charged up to $25 PER MINUTE.

I am just waiting for the e-mail from someone supposedly a widow of some Iraqi Ba'ath party member with $XX millions US to smuggle out of Iraq...just need your bank contact info....

[Coronach]

Great public service announcement, but...