Anybody else seeing these?

Trebissky

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In your email, that is...

"Bab Armstrong" <voaok@mksold.com>
Subject : insult nuptials (or something equally asinine)

StockBuyemail.gif


The past few weeks or so, I've been getting at least one of these and as many as five every day. The "stock" is always different, so's the sender, but the format is always the same.

Just wondering...
 
It's the latest trick to get around text parsing tools that block spam from getting to your account.

An important email security rule, if you don't know the sender, don't open an attachment.

J
 
Getting the same crap.
 
I figured these would be pretty widespread. Now the question is, how do we get rid of the damn things? I've reported each and every one of them as SPAM to Juno.com, but they still just keep right on getting through. And you can't use "Block Sender" because they're coming from all over the place, including Europe, almost no two alike as far as ISP or anything. Just the message, and those are gif's Cut-n-Pasted in.

An important email security rule, if you don't know the sender, don't open an attachment.
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Yeah, but that's another part of the problem, there's no attachment. There's not even a real message as such. Just this gif about some stock or another that's "about to take off like a rocket" or something similar.
 
Does anyone have a LEGIT stock trading site they can run these by, just to see if they've even heard of them at all?
 
Trebissky said:
Yeah, but that's another part of the problem, there's no attachment. There's not even a real message as such. Just this gif
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any image, gif or non-text is an attachment

set your rules to deny any attachments
 
CasterTroy said:
any image, gif or non-text is an attachment
set your rules to deny any attachments
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Can't do that, either. My wife and I have friends that are always sending us stuff as attachments, especially photos. :(
 
Or get an email program that's worth a shit. Whitelist your address book and let the spam filters go to work on the rest of them.

I haven't seen a spam email in.... hell, gotta be months.
 
I started gettin those like crazy on my gmail account. So I sent myself another invite thing and created a new account. Those were really makin me mad, because even though the majority made it into the spam folder, some made it into my inbox.
 
saf-t scissors said:
Or get an email program that's worth a shit. Whitelist your address book and let the spam filters go to work on the rest of them.

I haven't seen a spam email in.... hell, gotta be months.
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:stupid:


What he said.


You get what you pay for
 
Trebissky said:
Can't do that, either. My wife and I have friends that are always sending us stuff as attachments, especially photos. :(
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Good luck with that... So do you accept unexpected boxes delivered to your home? How bout when you were in the service? Just because your family sent boxes of gifts from home, did you guys just accept just any old box delivered to your unit?

An attachment can get time on your computers CPU. With Windows, that can be spectacularly bad. Virii propagate themselves through social engineering, where victims such as yourself assume that an attachment is safe because it came from a friend. The thing is, it did, but your friend's box is infected and now you are too.

Now, I've given a worst case scenario and it's your choice how you want to handle your security.

J
 
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