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Walt2

Walt2

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Just wanted to warn you fellas, if you get an email that indicates it is from Fed X and says something about an address being wrong which caused them to be unable to deliver an item and has a supposed invoice to open, do not click on this. It is a bug of some sort. I was fortunate that my antivirus-spyware stopped it.
 
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Rick
 
Rick Marchand said:
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Rick
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thanks for the tip, I used TOR before but will definitely check it out, I guess it's like a virtual machine. @OP you can report the email to emailbusters.org or use spam button in gmail, I've gotten a few of these phishing emails also, mostly fedex or UPS
 
Yea this has been coming for about a year now. UPS, USPS and Internal revenue service are a few others. Getting a little more creative with the scams. Non of these will send an email. They will either send a paper document or be knocking at your door. My antivirus handles them quite nicely.
 
Also various social media and networking platforms have become "cover stories" for phishing and hook spammers.

I've begun getting LinkedIn "invitations" and "reminders" and such from an assortment of places. The email is structured so that it's a plausible communication of the kind that could come from LinkedIn, but the email used in the "To:" address is not the one I use for LinkedIn. Rather than respond to the email or click on anything in it, I log in to my LinkedIn account and check the comms there.

I delete "Facebook" and "Twitter" notifications all the time. Why? I don't have an account in either place, so there is no traffic coming to me from those sources that can be valid at all.

We pre-screen all our emails. I use (for example) the old Unix PINE program to check my server-side email inboxes before I ever engage my regular email client. PINE and its derivatives are completely immune to scripting and out-of-band linking attacks. I also configure my email client to reject all web-sourced images in emails unless I've specifically cleared that source.

We also use Popcorn (another server-side POP account viewer) to screen our mail. It, too, is script and link immune.

We haven't been hit via email in years.

Of course there was the incident with the infected attachment sent to my wife by one of her clients. That was a solid week of hilarity.

If I have any doubt about an email, it gets parked in quarantine or deleted. I have sent messages to clients in the past saying, "did you send me an email yesterday, and if you did, what's in it?" Delays in mail delivery are not a big deal. The hurried and urgent arrival of evil in your inbox can wreck your whole week.

 
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