I don't know if its related to my visiting the Forum (or other blogs) but I'm getting so much more SPAM the past few weeks than ever before. They are of four kinds....
1) Things that looks like they are from the FBI or CIA telling me that I'm visiting "illegal" websites and they want me to open the attachment and answer their questions (yeah, right!). Lord knows I hope the gov't would be a bit more forceful if I were a real threat!
2) Offers to see Paris Hilton photos and "please use our attached download manager to view" -- again, yeah, right.
3) Friendly emails (poorly spelled) from someone who has changed their email address and isn't sure if they missed things I might have sent. Please open the attachment and let them know if that stuff was from me.
and lastly,
4) What seems to be notifications of the inability to send emails from me with an apology that whatever-system has been trying for 4 hours to send the attached email -- hoping I'll click on the attachment to see which of my messages has been unreceived.
I have a really good network at home and a firewall so all of the attachments have been deleted before the email hits but I'm wondering if anyone else is getting these sorts of things. I just figured this was a regular place I'm going, maybe someone is targeting "us".
1) Things that looks like they are from the FBI or CIA telling me that I'm visiting "illegal" websites and they want me to open the attachment and answer their questions (yeah, right!). Lord knows I hope the gov't would be a bit more forceful if I were a real threat!
2) Offers to see Paris Hilton photos and "please use our attached download manager to view" -- again, yeah, right.
3) Friendly emails (poorly spelled) from someone who has changed their email address and isn't sure if they missed things I might have sent. Please open the attachment and let them know if that stuff was from me.
and lastly,
4) What seems to be notifications of the inability to send emails from me with an apology that whatever-system has been trying for 4 hours to send the attached email -- hoping I'll click on the attachment to see which of my messages has been unreceived.
I have a really good network at home and a firewall so all of the attachments have been deleted before the email hits but I'm wondering if anyone else is getting these sorts of things. I just figured this was a regular place I'm going, maybe someone is targeting "us".