Spam email - from members on this board !

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 10:48

Has anyone else been receiving this 'b*ll*x' email beginning "Dear Friends: Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates sharing his fortune.. If you ignore this, You will repent later. ...."



To those who have sent this to me ....COME ON..



I truly hope this is a Trojan virus as it is REALLY bad form to email *spam* to everyone in one's address book using the 'cc function'



TIP: If you ARE copying loads of people, please use the bcc ( blind copy) function so as others don't see the email address of everyone you have sent it to.....



This one is as 'old as the hills' - dating back to 2003



http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ms-money-giveway-hoax.html



I have received several copies of this email and I'm VERY close to blocking any correspondence from those who forwarded it to me...



PLEASE reassure me you didn't think it was for real....

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 15:27

I have had loads of these in the last few days but as I haven't opened any of them I didn't know they were from a member here. Who is it please?

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 15:39

it's a hoax started in 1999

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 15:42

joandjelly. I doubt they are going to own up.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 16:52

..and I ain't gonna 'name and shame'.. as I am very matey with one of the 'culprits' ... ))

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 16:54

Mmmmmmmmmmm favour payroll maybe !!

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 17:55

Nope, Pipie re msg 6... purely respect ! ')

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 18:30

Ok it was me MM sorry

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 18:42

It could be, that the said person has had their email address harvested, and hasn't actually sent anything....it has happened to me before, so i know it does happen. Anyway, respect for not 'shaming' the person.





DD

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
09/11/2010 18:52

Actually Hippo, I wasn't 'aiming' at you... someone took YOUR email and then forwarded it on ... no doubt to most of the people in YOUR address book . GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!