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Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
in Zocalo v2.0
Got email from myself, from my jippii.fi account. subject "weah yea! :-)" in it there was some password and a zip file. Ofcourse I deleted it without checking but damn weird anyway. Checked that email account and there was a similar message from that girl in thailand.

Damned peculiar.

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  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    Sender's e-mail addresses can be falsified.
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
    [B]Sender's e-mail addresses can be falsified. [/B][/QUOTE]

    I know. But it was the first time I get spam from myself. heh. :)
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Sounds more like a virus, actually. Our university had a mild case of a virus that did exactly what you're describing not too long ago.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [B]Sounds more like a virus, actually. Our university had a mild case of a virus that did exactly what you're describing not too long ago. [/B][/QUOTE]
    Well, If I remember right jippii.fi is webmail.
    But it could have been virus that had falsified sender's addres.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    That's precisely what this one did. I got 5 emails from people complaining about me sending them a virus. I run linux.
  • AnlaShokAnlaShok Democrat From Hell
    Yeah, some of these new viruses take names from the infected person's address book and use an entry from it as the reply-to address. Hard to track those.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    See, that's the weird part. I'd never heard of these people before. My only guess is that they had put the entire UoA email directory into outlook and the virus grabbed it from there.
  • PhiPhi <font color=#FF0000>C</font><font color=#FF9900>o</font><font color=#FFFF00>l</font><font color=#00F
    Apparently some viruses can go through files (.txt, .doc, .wpd, .rtf etc.) and collect all the something@something.com/net/whatever parts. Could have got your email that way.

    -Φ
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