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Sanctuary S
Sanctuary Sep 14, 2013 10:34:25
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
Thanks Si. I don't open anything that is not from a recognised source and have good AV programmes running (McAfee and AV14). I was sent an email from a friend (supposedly) who passed on the mail sent to him by me (supposedly) in the form of a begging letter saying I was marooned in Manilla. I had no reason not to open it as it appeared to be a ligit post from him. The moment I opened his mail my laptop crashed then fired up again. That's when my emails and addresses vanished. That easy. If the begging email had come directly to me I would never have opened it.
I've changed my password now and had all my missing mails and addies restored by Yahoo.
So in actual fact two things happened, firstly the fraudulent emailer sent you an email purporting to be from friend, enclosing in his email the 'fraudulent' earlier email. So why though, did your computer crash, is there a third happening... As we all had one as you know Roy, that looks a bit scary..
Confused.
Hi Confused.com :-)
It was scary moss and more so that they were able to alter my return address so that the sender didn't return it to me but them! It was just the one letter in the address line which you wouldn't even notice and would have no reason to double-check.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Sep 14, 2013 11:00:31
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
Hi Confused.com :-)
It was scary moss and more so that they were able to alter my return address so that the sender didn't return it to me but them! It was just the one letter in the address line which you wouldn't even notice and would have no reason to double-check.
Hope you get it sorted soon Mr S. Couple of suggestions meanwhile – use ‘at’ instead of @ and ‘dot’ instead of . when giving out your email on public forums etc. Not completely fool-proof but it helps.

Heard on the radio yesterday of a cunning telephone scam. The villain calls you pretending to be from your bank. Cleverly says you should hang up, ring your bank to check that he’s legit. Good idea you think so you hang up and call your bank. Your bank answers and tells you that everything is legit and not to worry so you give out all your details and the villain walks away laughing to himself. How’s it done? Answer’s upside down at the bottom of your monitor :-)