email scams
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 11:08 pm by noelposted in tech | tags: e-mail, email scam, facebook, internet, microsoft, scam
i’ve been receiving a lot of these emails of late. they’re scams in my view. the first one came from the “facebook team” saying that i have to “submit a new, updated account agreement” and that i should “unzip the attached file and run the agreement.exe by double-clicking it.” the other is supposedly from the “microsoft team” providing a system scanner to check and get rid of the conficker.b virus in your computer. these are email scams to get a user to run the attachment which is actually a virus. so when you receive them just delete them.
below are samples of the scams i received. i’ll likely post an excerpt any new emails that i think are scams.
from the “facebook team”:
Dear Facebook user, Due to Facebook policy changes, all Facebook users must submit a new, updated account agreement, regardless of their original account start date. Accounts that do not submit the updated account agreement by the deadline will have restricted. Please unzip the attached file and run “agreement.exe” by double-clicking it. Thanks, The Facebook Team
from the “microsoft team”:
Dear Microsoft Customer, Starting 12/11/2009 the ‘Conficker’ worm began infecting Microsoft customers unusually rapidly. Microsoft has been advised by your Internet provider that your network is infected. To counteract further spread we advise removing the infection using an antispyware program. We are supplying all effected Windows Users with a free system scan in order to clean any files infected by the virus. Please install attached file to start the scan. The process takes under a minute and will prevent your files from being compromised. We appreciate your prompt cooperation. Regards, Microsoft Windows Agent #2 (Hollis) Microsoft Windows Computer Safety Division
watch out. these are scams. do not fall for them.










a couple of years ago one of my hard disks crashed. it wasn’t a major crash but i lost a good number of files nonetheless. i do have backups but since then i have tried to offload most of my files from my desktop and/or laptop to the internet.
please don’t just forward that joke. take a little time to “clean it” of the e-mail addresses of others. after all, it came from a friend and you’re sending it out to your friends. give them that little courtesy along with your joke, quotes, stories and whatever.
the other day i received an e-mail which looked a lot like spam but it didn’t get filtered. i took a closer look and i found out that the address of the sender was my e-mail address and it was sent to the same. i’m absolutely sure i didn’t send anything with a subject “january 74% off” let alone to myself. and with yahoo! doing my mail serving needs i’m sure i didn’t. they would only allow a limited number of e-mails per day.
this is interesting. curiosity gets the best of me and i opened it up. it just contained an image. i set my mail reader not to show me any images when i open an e-mail. i’m not about to start with this one.
mailing system. it has the data from what service provider it came from, which mail server received it, and where it was sent. all e-mail programs would have a way of letting you see the full headers of a particular e-mail. i use yahoo’s web interface and the headers is located on the right side of the open e-mail message.


