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PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:42 pm Reply with quote

Thought I'd share this with you all. I got it in my email today.

Thing is .... I own the domain darlacole.com and we run it from our hosting company .... so it was pretty easy to figure out that it's a fraud Laughing

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Post Office" <postmaster@darlacole.com>
To: <webmaster@darlacole.com>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: Returned mail: Data format error


Dear user [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ], administration of darlacole.com would like to let you know that:

Your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of unsolicited commercial e-mail during this week.
Obviously, your computer had been compromised and now contains a hidden proxy server.

Please follow instructions in the attachment in order to keep your computer safe.

Sincerely yours,
darlacole.com user support team.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:49 pm Reply with quote

That's funny Smile I like the ones that have in the subject 'Want to stop SPAM just like this one'.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:29 pm Reply with quote

LOL,

Or the ones that are just complete GIBBERISH!

Like that's really gonna entice me to actually open and read the thing!!

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:32 am Reply with quote

Darla,
If I am not mistaken, that email was sent from a computer that IS infected with the new version of MyDoom. And of course you are right about it spoofing your email. More info can be found here

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