Re: A new kind of Nigerian spam?

"Marty Helgesen" <mnhcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
On Aug 22, 5:59 am, mike weber <fairport...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
just received this e-mail:

Lately I've been getting a lot of e-mail welcoming me to various
organizations, business relationships, etc. Are they intended to get
me to write back saying I never joined, so the spammer will know he's
got a working address,

One likelihood.

or is there some other purpose? The
possibility that it's hiding some malware has occurred to me, but I
always look at mail from anyone I don't know on one of the public
computers in the library in which I work.

If they're directing you to a web site, it may be merely to get you to
look at their ads, or the site may be intended to drop malware on your
system.

The hard drives on those
are locked to everyone except the techs who have an administrator
password.

Locked in what sense? Are all the emails you open only opened to RAM?

One e-mail telling me the sender had accepted my refinance loan
request came from "raunchy financial".

Karl Johanson


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