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Weird computer stuff?

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:40 am
by Shannon Nelson
I just got a very strange e-mail, and wonder whether anyone has any
thoughts, or had a similar thing happen?

First oddity is the message:
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Hello,
First, Very Sorry for my bad English.

Someone is sending your private e-mails on my address.
It's probably an e-mail provider error!
At time, I've got over 10 mails on my account, but the recipient are
you.

I have copied all the mail text in the windows text-editor for you &
zipped then.
Make sure, that this mails don't come in my mail-box again.

bye [[and an icon for an attachment, titled "your text.zip(72.0 KB)"]]

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Second oddity: the "To" line carries not my address, but this:
User@relhubc02-ukbr.tcrelay.net

Why/how would it come to me, with what appears to be somebody else's
address? (I don't know if they are also that "somebody else's"
e-mails; I haven't opened the zip file, due to a neurosis about whether
it's "real" or viral... Can a Zi[p file carry a nasty?)

This probably has nothing to do with the list, but does anyone have any
ideas?
Thanks!
Shannon
(Baffled!)

Re: Weird computer stuff?

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:28 am
by Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD
Yep, got the same, probably a virus in the zip, do not open under any
circumstance!
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

Re: Weird computer stuff?

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:54 pm
by Shannon Nelson
Okay, I won't! (Another triumph of rational paranoia...)
For curiosity, did yours also come to you via someone else's address,
or do you have any idea how that happens?

Re: Weird computer stuff?

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:46 pm
by Rochelle Marsden
BTW - I got one early today as well but immediately deleted it as I never open attachments I am not expecting especially with the word zip!!

Rochelle

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Re: Weird computer stuff?

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:45 pm
by Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD
Just got another one this morning from another address..........always look
at the address if opening something, in doubt, email back and delete.
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".