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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
posted September 14, 2015 06:03 PM
Andrew, I've just seen that I got a mail in my "unwanted mails" section with your name as the sender. It is labelled spam and there is a link in it. Of course, I didn't click on that link before being sure it is not a virus.
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
posted September 15, 2015 05:02 AM
Are you two friends on Facebook?
We get emails trying to appear to be from our Facebook friends fairly often that are the right name, the wrong email sender's address, "I saw this and thought of you"(or something like that) and a link, very often for some product or service.
We've learned to spot them quickly...otherwise we'd be sitting here wondering why our Pastor's wife wants us to buy Viagra! (seriously...)
I think somebody grabbed our E-mail address (it was on the 'net a while), found the Facebook page, pulled the list of friends out and now thinks we will want to refinance our mortgage with a company based in Sri-Lanka because our 14 year old niece told us she did!
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From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
posted September 15, 2015 06:06 AM
Not that i am aware of Steve. i rarely use it and when i do it is just to look in on the BFCC page on there of which i am a member.
I will try and see if Dom is among its members tonight. thanks for pointing out a possible link though Steve, as so far I am both baffled by this and very unamused!
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Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
posted September 15, 2015 06:10 AM
I'm not a large Facebook user, neither. I have a page but it is empty and I accepeted no friends as I don't want to use Facebook for other purpose than (seldom) visiting some specific pages.
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
posted September 15, 2015 06:14 AM
I guess it wouldn't absolutely have to be Facebook: just any place where your name is listed along with people you know.
-could even be here.
We know ours was Facebook because that's the common connection among all these people who are "contacting" us. We never got one from non-Facebook people either.
If this is a similar case it's more Dominique's trouble: they have his E-mail address.
The question is do they have yours? (What was the sender's address?)
We got one of these from my cousin in Germany and I checked it out. The address turned out to be some guy in California who I've never heard of before. My cousin's e-mail account had nothing to do with it, and other than his name being used, neither did he.
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From: Sarpsborg, Norway
Registered: Nov 2012
posted September 15, 2015 09:10 AM
They (hackers, spammers) can easily do this, it's still not from Andrew :-) I assume an IP check in the mail header might reveal who sent it
Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
posted September 17, 2015 06:41 AM
Vidar is correct. The ip address will not match any of my computers.
Anything sent electronically from me should never contain any viruses. I try always to keep my pc's working well these days and since the boys have both grown up, all has been well I can thankfully say!
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