[LINK] Stupid scam

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

Tim Lister wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:34, Howard Lowndes wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 12:03, Antony Barry wrote:
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>>>Linkers
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>>>One of the most brazenly silly scams I've seen is in the below.
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>>>I run my own mail server so I am the postmaster. This message therefore 
>>>purports to be from me threatening to take away my mail account because 
>>>I've been sending spam and invites me to execute an attachment (which I 
>>>have deleted).
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>>Agree, but the difference is that you, in common with most on Link, are
>>techno savvy and hence to you it is an obvious scam.
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>it also helps having your own domain name, in my case webspinning.org
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>bit of a dead giveaway when i warn myself that i've been bad.
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>did anybody find out what the silly zip files were meant to do?
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Just another virus. I think it may be the new MyDoom variant? - which 
soaks search engines with searches for more e-mail addresses.

By heaven, but I am so sick of mass-mailer viruses...

RC

>naturally they don't do anything here (Linux), but one presumes that
>evil bad things would happen to M$ Outlook users ...
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>Tim Lister
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