[Tech1] Suspicious message

[Pat Heigham]

You might try installing Avast Anti-track, which seems to stifle any 
attempt to attack your email list.

Similarly I don't get spoof phone calls, these days. Maybe that's merely 
because I look at 'Caller Display',
and if unrecognised, is immediately manually cancelled.

I loved the scene in 'GoldenEye' where the Russian nerd computer geek 
could send a 'spike'
to rot up the distant computer. Oh! would it be for real!

Pat H

On 25/01/2023 10:48, David Brunt via Tech1 wrote:
> Hi Mike
>
> I should have mentioned it at the time but about a week ago I had a
> random message from 'Mike Giles' one day last week. Sounds like it was
> the exact same text and attachment. "You might like to see these
> photos" and a link.
>
> The email address on it wasn't your usual one (had a foreign country
> indicator as part of the name) so I just deleted it and flagged the
> address to go automatically to the bin on arrival.
>
> Sounds like someone on the group has been hacked and some fake names
> are being used for spam.
>
> David Brunt
>
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 08:26, Mike Giles via Tech1<tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>  wrote:
>> Sorry to contact you via the forum, Roger (Long) but I don’t have your e-mail address and I’ve received a message addressed individually to me, with attachments purporting to be from you, which seems very unlikely.
>>
>> Mike Giles
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