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  • 14 May, 2012 at 2:13 pm #17642

    Mrs_Teapot

    I wonder is anyone here getting infected emails from a person called Alan Higgins? his email address is [email protected]. I am getting as many as five or six emails a day from him…. I have no idea who it is … obviously I just delete them, but its a bit disconcerting being targeted by whoever it is.

    The reason I am asking people here is I have a dedicated email just for JC and I have shared it with very few people so I wondered if others here had a similar problem?

    14 May, 2012 at 2:32 pm #496502

    jen_jen

    I haven’t Mrs T but if I were you I’d set up a new account and just let that one die.

    14 May, 2012 at 2:41 pm #496503

    a certain sadness

    Thank god im not 53 :D

    14 May, 2012 at 2:43 pm #496504

    jen_jen

    @a certain sadness wrote:

    Thank god im not 53 :D

    :?:

    14 May, 2012 at 2:47 pm #496505

    tinks

    people should be careful at the moment ……..there are a lot of trojans around at the moment wich do untold damage

    14 May, 2012 at 2:58 pm #496506

    Wordsworth60

    @tinks wrote:

    people should be careful at the moment ……..there are a lot of trojans around at the moment wich do untold damage

    Very true, and the emails carrying them are getting more and more convincing – looking like special offers from supermarkets, enquiries from banks etc.

    Check anything that doesn’t make sense. Google some of the text and see if the hoax has been registered or reply telling them you will delete if you don’t hear from them explaining who they are and the nature of the email.

    If you let your cursor hover over the tag of the sender you will find the email address doesn’t sit with the sender – so an email purporting to be from a bank will show a personal or gobbledegook email address.

    14 May, 2012 at 3:01 pm #496507

    jen_jen

    @wordsworth60 wrote:

    Check anything that doesn’t make sense. Google some of the text and see if the hoax has been registered or reply telling them you will delete if you don’t hear from them explaining who they are and the nature of the email.

    Do NOT reply. Often these emails are speculative, testing for valid emails. If you reply you are confirming that you exist; your email address will then be circulated as a valid email…then your problems really begin.

    14 May, 2012 at 3:07 pm #496508

    Mrs_Teapot

    @jen_jen wrote:

    @a certain sadness wrote:

    Thank god im not 53 :D

    :?:

    Lol… what Certain???

    14 May, 2012 at 3:09 pm #496509

    a certain sadness

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    14 May, 2012 at 3:13 pm #496510

    Mrs_Teapot

    It says 4858… not 53 :D hands certain some glasses…. just for seeing :D

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