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Posted by Paul Browning (Member # 2715) on September 14, 2015, 12:25 PM:

Sent you a PM Andrew.

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on September 14, 2015, 01:59 PM:

on Nights Paul. will sort in the morning pal along with your package.

Posted by Paul Browning (Member # 2715) on September 14, 2015, 02:06 PM:

TOP MAN, thank you.

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on September 14, 2015, 05:05 PM:

thnx Paul

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on 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.

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on September 14, 2015, 07:28 PM:

Dominique. it isnt fron me. Do not open it mate. i dont know of its origins.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 15, 2015, 01:00 AM:

Thanks for the warning.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on 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!

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on 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!

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on 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.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on 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.

Posted by Paul Browning (Member # 2715) on September 15, 2015, 07:02 AM:

Well sorted Andrew, your a star, I don't know what happened though, just a glitch I guess.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 15, 2015, 09:08 AM:

The sender's adress starts with : arwoodcock@

Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on 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

Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on September 15, 2015, 09:37 AM:

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[ September 17, 2015, 07:01 AM: Message edited by: Mathew James ]

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on 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! [Wink]

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