Those stupid email thingies

TangyZizzle

I got an email a few days:-

From: fool@hotmail. com
Subject: Hii
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:46:28 +0000

hiiiii... ehehe huhu funny thing is ... ;p
i found a way to see what people are saying about me on msn chats

Anyhow, here you go must take a look... )

The 'here you go' part was a link to.. something, I .. of course, didnt click it because I know its a virus of some sort. Im hoping someone can tell me what the point in these things is? My gf got the same email and clicked the link, the next morning I had the exact same email from her.

I really was at a loss as to where to post this thread, mods if its not appropreiate(sp?) for her please move it.

Big Nasty

R&R?

TangyZizzle

Its not a rant, theres questions in my post, questions arent welcome in R&R

Sykk

There's a thousand reasons..

One being: They have control of your machine to use in a DDOS attack. Basically using your machine to connect to say... Grafton Barbers.com. They then use another 10,000 machines to spam connect at the same time, thus causing the site to crash.

Two being: Keylogging your PC so they can see your bank details and take your moneys!

peanuthead

Sykk wrote: »

Keylogging your PC so they can see your bank details and take your moneys!

:eek:

starlit

Avoid clicking on a link you consider suspicious of or that you don't know a thing about, best policy really!

TangyZizzle

I replied to her email 'wtf is this shít?,'

she wrote back yesterday 'it's just a random thing that ppl pass on to others , so I did the same thing when i got it , just passed it on to all my contacts but honestly I didnt even look at it is myself :L ,'

How thick can you get? She thought it was a chain mail type thingy..

starlit

Avoid chain mail, they'll just wreck your head!

peanuthead

TangyZizzle wrote: »

I replied to her email 'wtf is this shít?,'

she wrote back yesterday 'it's just a random thing that ppl pass on to others , so I did the same thing when i got it , just passed it on to all my contacts but honestly I didnt even look at it is myself :L ,'

How thick can you get? She thought it was a chain mail type thingy..

Well so did you if you also passed it on....

eightyfish

I Googled some text from your email. Got this thread. Google is fast!

kingtut

Don't mess with the google :cool:

chin_grin

Well done OP, but your girlfriend? Facepalm for clicking. There be spambots in them there emails..........yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

TangyZizzle

peanuthead wrote: »

Well so did you if you also passed it on....

where did I say I passed it on? I REPLIED to the email.. I didnt forward it.

peanuthead

TangyZizzle wrote: »

where did I say I passed it on? I REPLIED to the email.. I didnt forward it.

Oops, I didn't see the quotation marks there and I thought you said that you just forwarded it. My bad, I'm the stupid one!!

AAAAAAAHHH

TangyZizzle wrote: »

I replied to her email 'wtf is this shít?,'

she wrote back yesterday 'it's just a random thing that ppl pass on to others , so I did the same thing when i got it , just passed it on to all my contacts but honestly I didnt even look at it is myself :L ,'

How thick can you get? She thought it was a chain mail type thingy..

Well you're going out with her, how thick are you?

I think the link asks for your msn id and pwd, if people are stupid enough to click on the link then they are prob stupid enough to put their pwds in a random site. Then the system will see all your contacts email address and have a nice bunch of email to add to their spam list they can sell for lots of monies.

I've seen variations on it which say this site can show you who has blocked you in msn.