I received an email about patriotism which said I could change my ‘boring default cursor from Windows’ for a new one. It presented a list with some politicians, the Liberty statue, flags, and even Malebushia and Vioblairtor.
Only thing is the cursors must be downloaded as .cab or .exe, I don’t remember well… But I remember the warning said (it opened a download window automatically):
“By clicking yes to install and run you will receive other bundled software.”
Also, they said I’m subscribed to something. I won’t unsubs cuzz that’ll just show’em my account is active and therefore a good spamming target.
I know, I just wanted to show how creative spammers are getting. And it’s the fiorst time in a while I see a scam that could actually have someone falling on its trick.
If it’s got attachments or stuff like that and I don’t know who it’s from, I simply delete it anyway- if they want my attention that badly they’ll send another e-mail that is more likely not to contain a virus than is to contain a virus/spam. Incidentally, I have been known to delete e-mails from people I know.
One like the spam in the first post, I’d delete the e-mail, but I’d probably send an abusive one back from a freemail account (I’ve got about 10-12 of them, not counting Bradley’s) for good measure
Hmm…every so often, a warning will come up asking me if I want to run and install…and then it’ll say a signature code is not found…these things pop up even if I dont touch anything at my computer…usually when I go to download something, a warning will pop up, and will give me the go ahead but these things pop up and say the source is unknown or something like that…is this “spyware” or a potential virus???
Yeah, that’s spam, and probably either a virus or spyware as well.
