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Larry M.
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Dangerous SPAM Scams? - 7/16/2007 18:23:23
I've been inundated with two new types of SPAM messages directed to my business email address recently - 100 or more daily in addition to all the other crap I get 
(1) "You've received a greeting ecard from a School Friend" (Classmate) (Worshipper) (Family Member) (Neighbor) (Relative) (Pet Lover), etc.
(2) messages with PDF attachments.
Naturally I don't open these messages but I wonder if, in the instance of (1) greeting cards, will the site if called up have a Trojan or other virus? These sites are, variously, Postcards.com, Mypostcards.com, Netfuncards.com, etc. As to the SPAM messages with (2) attachments, I've read before that no one has found a way to imbed a virus in the PDF format. Has this changed?
Very frustrating - I know I'm not alone but it doesn't make it better since I have to slog through so much chaff to find wheat that I'm afraid I might miss the wheat at some point 
Comments anyone?
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RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? - 7/16/2007 18:57:36
You should contact the company (host) that handles your e-mail. They should be able to find a similar signature between all these messages, and then block them. This is something your host would need to do.
A lot of times, the PDF attachments are simply image based advertising. In the past couple months there has been a huge issue with spammers getting around anti-spam stuff by sending an image that contains the spam message (as opposed to text in the e-mail). Some hosts have been able to correct their anti-spam stuff for the image only based spam, so these spammers now send it as a PDF. Fewer hosts actually include the PDF scans in their anti-spam tests.
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Larry M.
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RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? - 7/16/2007 19:24:29
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You should contact the company (host) that handles your e-mail
Bobby,
My host is our host. I'll let Tom know.
Thanks!
p.s. I'm aware my avatar is not displaying. Can't get a new one to "take" - 404. Have emailed Spooky.
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RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? - 7/17/2007 1:24:12
nor me ;)
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RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? - 7/17/2007 20:16:03
Very odd. It shows up in NS 8.1 but not in 9.0
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RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? - 7/18/2007 13:23:07
Hi Larry
Take a look here.
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Larry M.
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RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? - 7/18/2007 16:40:08
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I'm aware my avatar is not displaying. Can't get a new one to "take" - 404. Have emailed Spooky
Spooky got my Avatar back up. He said he saw the 404 error and attributed it to a "webby thing".
Thanks Spooky!
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