re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read Friday, July 2, 2004 at 1:13 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) Gee... I got almost the same exact e-mail from HotMail.com regarding my account a while back. And one from my Dial-up ISP the same day! Followed the next day with one from Yahoo.com. It/they wanted me to use their link to access their free virus scan software, but fill in some personal account information for verification first, including enter my *****'ed password for access. First problem was I do not nor never had an account with Yahoo.com! Second the link to access their free software, while it looked good in the HTML, was to servers in Asia. Third, a quick check of my router access logs, showed that my systems had not accessed any of these ISP's or their e-mail servers for the past week! (I had been busy doing other things and had only been using my cable ISP.) Forth, running several different Adware, Spyware, Virus and Trojan scans did not pick up any thing unusual. And doing a full check of all programs (including hidden ones) did not show any new program files on my system that I was not aware of. I of course did not run any of the scam scanners like NoAdware which "report fake infections that do not exist". (They really want to look get and get you to buy their scam product.) Accessing those e-mail accounts did show a few "returned" e-mail claiming a virus was found. But a close check of the HTML in these notices showed that they did not actually come from the ISP e-mail server they claimed to have come from, but an account somewhere in Asia, ... hum do I detect a pattern here. When I then click on the link provided and entered some "fake" account information, it accepted it and passed me to valid links on those ISP's web sites! A quick check of router logs then showed that I had accessed an IP address in Asia and then the actual ISP web sites. Hum... smells like the typical scam to me. An attempt to get your logon passwords. I also got this e-mal yesterday: Hoax Warning I hate those hoax warnings, but this one is important! Send this warning to everyone on your e-mail list. If someone comes to your front door saying they are conducting a survey and asks you to take your clothes off, do not do it.!!! This is a scam; they only want to see you naked. I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid now..... Written in response to: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (darlene: Friday, July 2, 2004 at 2:35 am) Responses to this message: re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (brian: Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 9:36 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (darlene: Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 2:35 am) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (joe: Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 5:06 am) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (mariah: Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 5:19 am) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (darlene: Sat, Jul 3, 2004, 2:48 am) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (joe: Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 3:00 pm) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (darlene: Sat, Jul 3, 2004, 2:11 am) Anonymous email to Darlene doesn't exist...Please Read: (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Jul 3, 2004, 5:04 pm) re: Anonymous email to Darlene doesn't exist...Please Read: (Livius Blair: Thu, Jun 23, 2005, 9:53 am) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (Buddy: Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 5:21 am) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (darlene: Sat, Jul 3, 2004, 3:08 am) re: Mac (Cam: Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 1:10 pm) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (Jack Gulley: Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 1:13 pm) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (brian: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 9:36 pm) re: Annonymous email from the administrators takes away my First Amendment RIGHTS, Please read (Cam: Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 1:16 pm) re: Annonymous email from the administrators (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 2:15 pm) re: Annonymous email from the administrators (J.R.: Sat, Jul 3, 2004, 10:26 am) re: Annonymous email from the administrators (Rich: Tue, Aug 24, 2004, 8:59 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum