[meteorite-list] Email hacked

MexicoDoug mexicodoug at aim.com
Wed Jul 11 12:45:13 EDT 2012


Dear list (real message)

Everyone, sorry I haven't had time to post, or even go online lately 
due to family health circumstances.  Unfortunately, just one month 
un-updated and it seems about a thousand people in my address book are 
receiving stupid 'h .e.llo' type messages.  Thanks to everyone for 
alerting me and please DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS in any email from me.  
There are no viruses, the only problem is the embarrassing links sent 
out to the world by the scammer who got me, which will probably help 
him steal your address book too if you click on it without having you 
address book protected.

The only places I may have picked up this email scourage as far as I 
can guess, is the Wisconsin Humane Society's "Play with a cat remotely" 
on the their adopt a cat website, or some checker I ran on my computer 
because of the FBI DNS Changer scare a couple days ago.

A thousand apologies, an current in-depth virus check on my computer 
with Eset (zero virus result), a complete deleting/cleaning of the 
registries with CCleaner's maximum security settings, a run of the 
Windows updater to install all elements to date not installed, and 
double removal of all cookies and cache is what I did.  Any real email 
 from me will not have any stupid Re:Greetings sort of subject.  I will 
put something personal in the subject line.

Sorry, sheesh, what bad timing, over 25 years using internet and let 
your guard down a moment and you can get slammed.  My best wishes to 
all as I've missed corresponding with so many.

Kindest wishes
Doug



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