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Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Riven on January 02, 2003, 07:44:37 am
This came on the email account i mostly use in the freespace comunity. If you get this email the beware, Norton picked the attachment up as a virus so i advise you not to open it.

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Hello,
The attached product is send as a part of our official campaign
for the popularity of our product.
You have been chosen to try a free fully functional sample of our
product.If you are satified then you can send it to your friends.
All you have to do is to install the software and register an account
with us using the links provided in the software. Then send this software
to your friends using your account ID and for each person who registers
with us through your account, we will pay you $1.5.Once your account reaches
the limit of $50, your payment will be send to your registration address by
check or draft.

Please note that the registration process is completely free which means
by participating in this program you will only gain without loosing anything.

Best Regards,
Admin,

Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Ashrak on January 02, 2003, 07:47:26 am
ahaem who tha f is it from?
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Riven on January 02, 2003, 07:49:29 am
Sender: Real Inc
Subject: Check it out!
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Ulundel on January 02, 2003, 07:58:27 am
Meh, of course it's a virus :p
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: CP5670 on January 02, 2003, 09:19:36 am
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Please note that the registration process is completely free which means
by participating in this program you will only gain without loosing anything.


What kind of crazy company would write something like this anyway... :p :D
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: vyper on January 02, 2003, 09:37:49 am
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Originally posted by CP5670


What kind of crazy company would write something like this anyway... :p :D


Someone p1mping spyware perhaps?
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Nico on January 02, 2003, 10:13:10 am
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
Meh, of course it's a virus :p


indeed, reading at the mail, I wouldn't have much doubt either :p
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 02, 2003, 11:33:45 am
So... by maskerading as a pyramid scheme, they think they can ecourage people to open the attatchment? Hmm... I do hope people aren't stupid enough to fall for this...
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Zeronet on January 02, 2003, 11:52:30 am
If i dont recognise it, i delete it. I do it without realising it sometimes :D
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: SKYNET-011 on January 02, 2003, 11:55:46 am
It's a virus alright, got two of those e-mails. It's a very easy-to-beat virus, though. No anti-virus required.(It disabled mine. Fixed now.)
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: silverwolf on January 02, 2003, 01:14:56 pm
i gotten it just not from the same sender mine is from admin@hackergroup or something like that but whats weird norton didn't pick up anything but i didn't touch it.eh i think its just another klez like virus...
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: SKYNET-011 on January 02, 2003, 05:18:11 pm
(Processing)

Actually, Symantec named it W32.YaHa.
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 02, 2003, 05:20:12 pm
Good- an anti-moron virus. Hope it trashes lots of pyramid scammers.
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Stealth on January 02, 2003, 06:18:34 pm
nice!
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: CP5670 on January 02, 2003, 10:41:29 pm
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Good- an anti-moron virus. Hope it trashes lots of pyramid scammers.


lol :D :D

Actually, I bet a good many people on the internet will fall for this...
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Riven on January 03, 2003, 06:46:02 am
I've now got 2 more versions of it. One saying it's a friend finding program (and the sender's address was put on from my contacts list) and the other said it was a hardcore search program with sender as someone called jenna jameson or sumin like that.
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Ulundel on January 03, 2003, 06:53:05 am
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Originally posted by Riven
I've now got 2 more versions of it. One saying it's a friend finding program (and the sender's address was put on from my contacts list) and the other said it was a hardcore search program with sender as someone called jenna jameson or sumin like that.


:lol: Jenna Jameson is a world famous porn star...
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Setekh on January 03, 2003, 08:08:15 pm
"$1.5"? For some reason, I find this funny.
:nervous:
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Ulundel on January 04, 2003, 04:07:37 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
"$1.5"? For some reason, I find this funny.
:nervous:


Weeeeel, $6.9 would be funny... :D
Title: Has anyone else got this email?
Post by: Vertigo1 on January 04, 2003, 10:41:07 pm
This, folks, is exactly why I don't give out my e-mail address to just anyone, and have several "dont-care" addresses that I have and only check often enough to keep them alive.