Post by: Paddy on September 24, 2015, 09:21:37 AM
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Hello PayPal user,
Recently, we have detected different logins to your account from different country followed by some illegals buys and we think that the hackers have hacked it, so we have suspended your account.
What do I need to do?
Open your account by clicking to "login" button, and remember to update your informations after logging in.
We will give you 3 days to update your informations or we will suspend your account forever.
Sincerely,
PayPal
P.S:the following button contains a special link that give you the possibility to open your suspended account, but you should not login from the page in official website because that can suspend your account forever.
Recently, we have detected different logins to your account from different country followed by some illegals buys and we think that the hackers have hacked it, so we have suspended your account.
What do I need to do?
Open your account by clicking to "login" button, and remember to update your informations after logging in.
We will give you 3 days to update your informations or we will suspend your account forever.
Sincerely,
PayPal
P.S:the following button contains a special link that give you the possibility to open your suspended account, but you should not login from the page in official website because that can suspend your account forever.
Post by: jchuzi on September 24, 2015, 10:10:05 AM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on September 24, 2015, 11:01:59 AM
Never use those "Official" links/bookmarks/typed into a browser things! Who knows where those might take you! 
Post by: kimmer on September 24, 2015, 11:20:26 AM
Post by: jchuzi on September 24, 2015, 12:04:06 PM
From Master Mavelous Kone
Cote d'Iviore in West Africa
Dear
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you, My Name is Master Mavelous Kone the only Son of late Mr and Mrs Abraham Kone i am 17 year's old My father was a very wealthy Cocoa merchant in Cote d'Ivoire in west Africa.
My father was shot during the political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire in 2011 and he was rushed to hospital but he did not survive the gun shot and died, before his death he told me that he deposited the sum of (USD $12.3 TWELVE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS ) in a security company here in Cote d’Ivoire which he put in a trunk box and registered it as family treasury, because he don't want the security company to know the content of the trunk box for the safety of the money.
I want you to help me secure this my inheritance from my late father as my late father's foreign business partner because my mother died when i was four years. also know you will help me come over to your country to continue my education while you will help me invest the money for me in a good business.
I have gone to the security company here and confirm the deposit, I will compensate you with 30% of this money if you help me secure this box from the security company here. l hope you will not betray the trust i have on you because this money is my only surviving hope in this life.
I can assure you there is No Risk involve the money is my inheritance from my late father.
I am waiting to hear from you.
Mavelous Kone
Don't you love his name? There was also Marvelous Marv Throneberry of the original Mets.
Post by: Highmac on September 25, 2015, 02:39:35 AM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on September 25, 2015, 09:28:58 AM
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at least one person, somewhere, will be caught by each of those
What?! Are you trying to tell me this is a SCAM?! I already have my steamer tickets to Cote d'Ivoire!!! BTW, is that a town or a country... 
Post by: Highmac on September 25, 2015, 09:37:01 AM
Post by: tacit on September 25, 2015, 02:58:16 PM
QUOTE(jchuzi @ Sep 24 2015, 05:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I am waiting to hear from you.
Mavelous Kone
Don't you love his name? There was also Marvelous Marv Throneberry of the original Mets.
Mavelous Kone
Don't you love his name? There was also Marvelous Marv Throneberry of the original Mets.
In the past few months, I have received these kinds of emails from "James Kirk," "Joe Stalin," and "Ansel Adams."
Most of these kinds of frauds happen in Nigeria (which is why they're called 419 scams, from section 419 of the Nigerian penal code), and I suppose the folks who do them can't really be expected to be familiar with Western names. But still...
Post by: Xairbusdriver on September 25, 2015, 04:02:43 PM
No matter how well you 'educate' some people, they will always have enough greed to believe anything that promises large sums of cash! What is amazing to me is how any rational person would think that they would be picked by a complete stranger, in a foreign land to be in control of anything valuable, much less, multi-millions of dollars!
Post by: jcarter on September 26, 2015, 08:41:47 AM
But managed to get out with the money and started a business selling weight loss scams to people on the internet, and got some pretty funny things to happen.
But alas, I got put in jail again, and am in an American jail, and its wonderful, Ive gained all my fat back, Im up to 489 pounds already, and the food is awesome, I have all sorts of perks and full hospital care and I dont have to spend a cent of the $ I brought back from Africa any more.
Im pretty happy here, though I miss my lovely Lear jet, and my new Maserati.
My new name is Amazing Kone. Or should I spell it Cone?
Post by: Jack W on September 26, 2015, 12:00:25 PM
QUOTE(jcarter @ Sep 26 2015, 09:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Oh, I got one like that, and I went to Africa with some 'friends' and we got the money. But got arrested too, and spent a few years in jail, but needed to lose weight, and that happened. Did some research on disentary and malaria too, quite interesting. Its a great way to get slim again!
But managed to get out with the money and started a business selling weight loss scams to people on the internet, and got some pretty funny things to happen.
But alas, I got put in jail again, and am in an American jail, and its wonderful, Ive gained all my fat back, Im up to 489 pounds already, and the food is awesome, I have all sorts of perks and full hospital care and I dont have to spend a cent of the $ I brought back from Africa any more.
Im pretty happy here, though I miss my lovely Lear jet, and my new Maserati.
My new name is Amazing Kone. Or should I spell it Cone?
But managed to get out with the money and started a business selling weight loss scams to people on the internet, and got some pretty funny things to happen.
But alas, I got put in jail again, and am in an American jail, and its wonderful, Ive gained all my fat back, Im up to 489 pounds already, and the food is awesome, I have all sorts of perks and full hospital care and I dont have to spend a cent of the $ I brought back from Africa any more.
Im pretty happy here, though I miss my lovely Lear jet, and my new Maserati.
My new name is Amazing Kone. Or should I spell it Cone?
Good one Jane !
Post by: eric j on September 29, 2015, 01:41:30 PM
On Sep 18 a message appeared, ostensibly from eBay, with a header in German. When I clicked to read the message, Entourage froze completely. I had to restart the Mini. As long as I avoided the eBay message there was no problem.
Yesterday another "eBay" message appeared with a different German header. I assume it would also freeze the Mini, so I have not tried to read it.
AFAIK I have never used eBay. Is somebody trying to make mischief here (other than freezing Entourage)?
Today I discovered a little yellow flag, top left in the header window, allowing me to delete the message from the server - and have done so.
eric j
Post by: jchuzi on September 29, 2015, 02:13:22 PM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on September 29, 2015, 02:35:16 PM
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AFAIK I have never used eBay. Is somebody trying to make mischief here (other than freezing Entourage)?
That's a good first clue. Remember, if you have "Show remote images" checked/allowed, simply opening an email can provide confirmation that you have a valid email address and could even download an app to your drive. So far, these apps are for Windows, but you are still sending info to a server showing that you allow images, and therefore, some access to your system. Companies can also get info on which ads (usually images) that you may see, even if you don't click on them.All this personal information belongs to us, why should we give it away for free?
Basic email rule #1: Never open a message you have no reason to expect to receive.
Basic email rule #2: Never click on a link/URL in an email.
Basic email rule #3: Re-read above rules.
Post by: eric j on September 29, 2015, 03:57:12 PM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on September 30, 2015, 03:24:29 PM
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n the mean time, this exploit is primarily in the proof-of-concept phase, and does require specific modification of installer files in order to work. This means that even though this overcomes Apple’s security, it will still require you obtain compromised software from unofficial third-party software distribution sites, an act that essentially breaks a primary rule of any computer security. Provided you only get your software from the App Store or directly from developer Web sites, then you should be safe from this problem.
This is a summary of the <MacIssues> blog about a vulnerability in GateKeeper....uhm, we are all using GateKeeper, right?!
(System Prefs->Security & Privacy->"Allow apps downloaded from:" Mac App Store or MAS and identified developers or Post by: Paddy on October 18, 2015, 11:02:47 AM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on October 18, 2015, 04:08:09 PM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on October 19, 2015, 05:19:19 PM
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<a href="http://ultrakurzwellen[...]64552,2114771,,1045828&eb=">
<img src="http://ultrakurzwellensender.xyz/images/0e571258fe.png" border="0" />
</a>
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<img src="http://ultrakurzwellensender.xyz/images/0e571258fe.png" border="0" />
</a>
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Note that if I'd had not had a white background, I would actually have seen those words. They intentionally set the text color to white with the HTML + CSS <div style="color:#fff">. I suppose Mail is quite forgiving of incorrectly written CSS... (there should be a semi-colon after the last "f") The point is "#fff" is the short-hand version of the hexadecimal number for white; Red="ff", Green="ff", Blue="ff". These SPAMmers/SCAMmers assumed that most of us have white background in our mail readers.
BTY, the image is one from AIG Insurance that would normally have several links to their insurance offerings. As you can see in the html, the only link is to the SCAM/SPAM site. Anyone clicking on what looked like a link would see what looked like getting sent to the AIG site... at first, anyway. Somehow, I doubt that they would be "offering" any kind of useful 'insurance'... even for "ultra short wave transmitters", which is the english translation of their domain name.
I was even more surprised that the link actually takes one to the real AIG site. Mainly that just lowers my already low esteem for them, even if this is done by the "Moosehead Media" slugs.
I've sent the source to spam@uce.gov with no expectation of anything useful happening. At least I feel better, and am encouraged by SpamSieve's increasing 'knowledge'! 
A 'WhoIs' search reveals that "ultrakurzwellensender.xyz" supposedly belongs to "Moosehead Media" with a hotmail addy. I'm amazed that any legitimate company would still use a hotmail account! I have no idea who they actually are, but one site with that name sure did not encourage me to contact them.
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Greg [...]
With over half a decade of automotive advertising experience, Greg has truly become one of the brilliant young minds in the industry. He continues to challenge passé and static methods of advertising by bringing them into the 21st century with innovative and industry leading products that can get you where you want to be.
I've seen enough 'advertising/direct mail' SCAMs at my Scams site to not get closer than a dozen 10-foot poles! With over half a decade of automotive advertising experience, Greg has truly become one of the brilliant young minds in the industry. He continues to challenge passé and static methods of advertising by bringing them into the 21st century with innovative and industry leading products that can get you where you want to be.
No doubt, "Greg" and AIG now both have at least some of my personal info. I am convinced that they have a working relationship. I expect I'll be getting a call from one or both soon, just another one with "Private caller" or "Unknown Name" or no caller ID info at all.
Post by: jchuzi on December 09, 2015, 10:19:27 AM
Dear E-mail Account Owner,
This message comes from your (EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDER)messaging admin center to All E-mail Account owners. We are currently improving our Database and E-mail Account Center and creating more certainty for our Legal Service clients. At this moment we are upgrading our data base so that there will be more space for new customers and increasing the surf on the Internet.
To prevent your Email address not to be DE-activated and to enable it upgraded, you need to assist us by sending the information below to enable us upgrade it, so that your email account status were fleet in our database as a very active, useful and legal email account. Do send to us the below information to enable us upgrade your Account, else your email account will lost in a short time.
Name: ...........................
E-mail ...........................
Password: ........................
Date of Birth: .............. ....
Country: .................. ......
WARNING!!!E-MAIL OWNERS who refuses to upgrade his or her account within Five days after notification of this update will permanently be deleted from our data base and can also lead to malfunctioning of the client or user’s account and we will not be responsible for loosing our account.
Thanks for your understanding as it is geared towards serving you better.
Yahoo Support Team
Warning
Let's hope that these "yahoos" never learn how to speak English.
Post by: Xairbusdriver on December 09, 2015, 04:44:36 PM
I hope your message, containing all that personal information, gets to them before that "Five" days are up! I think those kind of days are only 20 hours long... However, with such bad grammar, they may also have trouble calculating those days, no matter what their actual length!
I think it is very nice of them to give "more certainty for [their] Legal Service clients." It's also very nice (for you, anyway) that they "will be increasing the surf on the Internet". I hope some of that comes this way! I have noticed quite a bit of calm seas of late, have had revert to paddle boarding!
I wonder, however, if your law-skirting uses of the "surf" may cause them to cancel your account, even if they get your data in time. At least that's what I take from this statement:"so that your email account status were fleet in our database as a very active, useful and legal email account".
Many of these workers are hired right out of Grade School, so I think it just a typing mistake that created this: "we will not be responsible for loosing our account". I'm sure they meant to have a "y" in front of that "our".
All this concern, help, and improvement and not a single word about increasing the cost! Looks like you picked a real winner"!
