VO-BB - 19 YEARS OLD!

[Charlie Channel]

Hey folks,

I've received two sets of E-mail, on double send possibly from a friend and another possibly from my son.

The subject line reads: Come and see my photos.

When you open the mail and click on a link, there's a place for you to insert your "First Name" userid and password for four ISP portals:

Hotmail
Aol
Yahoo
Gmail

I'm calling my son to see if he's sent me anything like that. But, to me it sounds very phishy.

It may be legit, but error on the side of caution on this.

C

[Deirdre]

PHISH-EEEEE!!!

Thanks for the warning, Charlie.
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[billelder]

Charlie,

Very wise, Charlie.

I use Thunderbird for my e-mail client. Do you have yours set to block photos?

[Jeff McNeal]

Here's another warning. I participate on another forum where a member posted a link to goggle.com, which can easily be accidentally accessed when looking for google. Anyway, I clicked the link and a very aggressive attempt was made by that site to load spyware or other harmful malware onto my PC, but fortunately, my protections were up to date so it was unable to succeed. DO NOT click any links you receive in a phishing e-mail. All sorts of nasty stuff can happen.

[anthonyVO]

i went there just to see for myself
i counted at least 3 cookies, and one executable that tried to load.

paranoia on the web can be good

-Anthony

[donrandall]

[billelder]

If you're like me (And if you are...then seek professional help immediately!) you get tons of e-mails from friends and family that have a zillion e-mail addresses in the "To" section.

In a mass group e-mail, instead of putting all of the addresses in the "To" section, put them in Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy). First, address the e-mail to yourself. That means put your e-mail address in the "To" box. Then, you can select all the other e-mails to send and put them in the Bcc box. That makes the addresses invisible to other folks on the list and to the bots that pick up these addresses and use them for spam. This is from Leo Laporte of the Tech Tv show "Call For Help".

I had this happen with a friend from the UK who is a Choirmaster. He was moving to another church and sent an e-mail telling everyone of his new address. Included in the "To" section were e-mails for people I had heard of in the music industry. <g>

Anyway, Bcc is a nice thing to do for people. I use this method when I have to e-mail clients to let them know I'm going to be unavailable because of shock therapy or my monthly "hair club for men" meeting. Same thing, actually. I hope this helps.

[anthonyVO]

[donrandall]

Hey Bill - you da man! Thanks for the great tip - I never woulda thought of that one, but I will begin to make use of it.

[allensco]

Thank you Bill! I'm so glad to see someone else that does the smart thing