Look what he got one of them to do, in pursuit of his (lowbridge's) promise to donate $$ to one of their fraudulent causes (yes, that is underwear on her head):
Posted on 12/03/2004 12:00:49 PM PST by RepublicanReptile
My Mother received anb e-mail today with the sender listed as " Suffocating G Colleen" When she read it the only thing written in the e-mail was " Bhopal". Mom is worried because today is the anniversary of some sort of disaster in Bhopal India where a lot of people were gassed. She just called me to say that about an hoour ago there was a false alarm of it happening again and also something in Ireland. What do you think this is? Just SPAM, or something more worriesome?
Sometimes these mysterious messages are ways to bypass your spam filter, so the sender types in all sorts of nonsense (which can read like a stream-of-consciousness poem). This might be the case here, and it's possible the sender forgot to attach his/her message to go with it---it's usually something about penis enlargement, cosmetic products or pharmaceuticals. At any rate, I'll go with the group consensus: don't open from someone you don't know. And watch out for copycats---I've gotten that PayPal request e-mail; when I contacted them, they told me that neither they nor anyone else would ask you to link from an e-mail to update information. But they can sure look bonafide! Also, I only wish I had all those millions of dollars that those generous banks from Nigeria, Korea and Ethiopia are trying to put into my bank account!
Yeah, but I'll bet his mom doesn't run around in a leather outfit with a big sword though. :-)
I don't know if La Raza or Mecha would be patient enough to associate Xenalyte with that sorta-public figure. My information is easy enough to piece together if you have several different sites, but it's not all in one place.
Very good advice. I would add that there have been a number of emails which appear to come from financial institutions including PayPal and Banks. They come with legitimate looking logos and legitimate looking email links. They will inform you that information must be updated or you need to check your account.
Advice: NEVER, EVER follow a link provided in an unsolicited email. Always type in the address of the institution or use a bookmark which YOU created. That is the only way to guarantee that you are actually at a legitimate site.
I follow the same procedure with snail mail and phone numbers. Don't assume that unsolicited mail asking you to call comes from the party they pretend to be. Take the time to look up phone numbers so that you know who you are talking to.
I remember thinking about Bhopal quite seriously at the time, since I believe there were only two mass storage locations in the world of the chemical involved, and I lived near the other one in Charleston WV.
3,000 killed immediately. Another 5,000-10,000 killed in the next few days/months. Many thousands more unable to work, walk, etc... They did a soil sample earlier this year. The soil is still very contaminated. And babies are still being born with multiple birth defects.
Norton is the best, and i am amazed that people do not have antivirus software or rely on aol, etc to provide protection. You need your windows and norton updates constantly. I have never had a virus on any computer and doubt anyone would if they had the software.
"Who killed more Indians than John Wayne?
answer: Union Carbide"
I always heard it as "more Indians than General Custer", since Wayne never actually killed any himself.
I wasn't annoyed, just wanted to know about the rest of the stuff.
Oh
my!
My mom wasn't a librarian or any such, she graduated from high school and helped my dad with his businesses (not high tech - raising cattle, grocery stores, butcher shop), but she's an intelligent woman. But computers just absolutely stymie her. My nephew visits often enough to clean up her computer for her, but she never understands what the problem was. "Oh, he fixed it". What was wrong with it? "I don't know, he updated something." Oooookay.
Tell her not to mix methyl-isocyanate with water.
The chemical is called MIC (don't ask me to spell it out. It's a pesticide. Just hope the storage tanks don't come into any contact with water (or in the case of Bhopal, 500 liters of it). The chemical reaction releases a nasty mist that you do not want to be near.
I open lots of email from strangers. You have to if you're running an Internet based business. The best protection I've found from viruses, and spy crap is to open each mail at my day job, delete those that are unwanted, then reopen at home only those I pre-viewed on my work computer. Any new mail waits until the next day when I can open it at work. Works fine I never get any bad stuff in my home systems.
Look what he got one of them to do, in pursuit of his (lowbridge's) promise to donate $$ to one of their fraudulent causes (yes, that is underwear on her head):
Interesting... I got one from Citibank saying HIGH ALERT DETECTED and that I must change/reset my online accout password IMMEDIATELY. I DO NOT have a Citibank online account. What is up with this?
I've gotten numerous messages purporting to be from banks that need to update my information. Two of those banks are banks I do business with, and they look quite official. However, some of the English was a bit tortured, plus - the messages were delivered to my junk mail folder. Big clue, big red flag. I just delete them now without opening them.
When I get a real message from one of banks, for instance confirming an online transaction, it is delivered to my main inbox.
Be careful. Many a person has followed the links in those e-mails just to see where it went, and even though the had the sense NOT to enter their personal data, they wound up getting a keystroke logger installed on their machines. So as they went to various websites (banks, paypal, ebay), the keystroke logger got their personal information anyway and sent it to the fraudsters.
Yeah - I've gotten some of those too.... the paypal one in particular.
It's called phishing. They are hoping to send out enough of these to actual citibank customers will get them and give out their personal banking information. It must work, because they keep doing it.
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