Posted on 04/03/2019 7:21:55 PM PDT by Jemian
I just got this email on one of my accounts. It purported, as you will read, to be from that same email. It wasn't. I went to the raw source and, of course, have the original email and the ip address of the person who sent it. This is the body of the email:
Lemme know as I have gotten 3 of the exact msg ... jus been ignore and erasing them
What makes you think you have the real email and IP address?
This mail and countless variants has been floating around the past couple of years. Delete it and get on with your life.
FBI. FCC.
If I knew who it was and had physical access, a beatdown would be in order.
FCC? Yeah, they will get right on it. They’ll go after them with the vigor they use in illegal telemarketers.
Call the FBI, perhaps.
How do you find the IP and the raw source email address?
I got one of those emails but I just deleted it.
Wait until you get a letter in the mail indicating they have similar, incriminating evidence that they will send to your family unless you pay the random. I handed the letter to my wife to let her read it, which gave her a good laugh. She then told me to stop having so much when she isn't around. LOL! The letter was subsequently shredded.
Maybe stop watching porn?
You are lucky it isn’t a real problem.
I got a call from Microsoft yesterday. They will no longer be providing services in my area unless I call back and give them my computer information. I forgot to call them today - I hope the offer is still good tomorrow.
More importantly, I have to call the IRS back with my bank account information so they don’t get a warrant for my arrest due to unpaid taxes of $89.43 from last year.
I highlighted the email header. That might not even be necessary.
Then, on the toolbar, I went to “View”.
On that menu, I scrolled down to “Message”.
That opened up two more options and I chose “View Raw Source.”
The last address listed is the real sender, along with his ip address. I also know that it is a GoDaddy account.
Don’t need to change it, because it is just a phishing technique. He did not have it in the first place. He spoofed the address.
I’ve gotten this message before too. Just delete it and move on. Any response will only garner you more attention from these idiots.
Feeb-Eye
Obviously don't reply to it, ever -- there are copies of pirated files made up of logon data from very old data breaches, and this is indeed phishing. I had the same message arrive at my work email address some months back, posted about it here.
Oh, Bob. That is totally not a problem with me. Anyone who got my videos would see how bad a photographer I am, see my work in Papua, Indonesia and the environs, and be totally bored watching Magnum PI, Murder She Wrote, and NCIS.
As my kids have said, I am dull, boring, and hopelessly old fashioned. And I’m proud of it.
Oh, yes, and Auburn pictures. I am an Auburn alumna. WAR EAGLE!
Just delete it mark it as spam and then go fishing it’s not rocket science.
Yeah, no question of not replying. The email didn’t even have a typed message. It was a .jpg!
Y’all may have noticed I haven’t given out his email address here. I am tempted to dox the guy and give him a taste of his own medicine. I’m vengeful like that.
This is actually a common one. I get the same one from different IP sources all the time in my Domain email. I get a LOT like this in my domain email. lol
It’s common “spoofing” spam. First time I got one I showed it to my wife and she said “what have you been doing!” lol
It's not altogether unlikely that the system the clown used suspended the acc't due to the outgoing volume of messages, or the incoming sea of complaints.
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