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Grant

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so i get this email from someone - we dont send each other crap & a million attachments:
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i did not click the link, but was curious to see if i hit a reply button - this is what i saw:
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this mail is from a MBP to another MBP both using gmail

am i being unusually suspicious ?
 
Google "gdesumarjayalinggih"

Or simply email your connection and find out whether they shared a file with you. Then wipe your history / cookies, etc. and change your gmail password pronto. Jus' saying :P - That's what I'd do.
 
Indigogirl said:
Google "gdesumarjayalinggih"

Or simply email your connection and find out whether they shared a file with you. Then wipe your history / cookies, etc. and change your gmail password pronto. Jus' saying :P - That's what I'd do.
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turns out he is not even home - out having a drink with friends
 
cpu. said:
What does not being home have to do with sending email?
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one would generally send mail from your computer, when you are at the machine - not the machine doing it's own thing on it's own while you are out & about (ie, while the cat's away .. .. .. ..)
 
so, it would appear to be a virus of sorts.
it has attached itself to his address book, either on the MBP, iPhone or iCloud & sent similar mail to all his contacts.
 
grantza said:
one would generally send mail from your computer, when you are at the machine - not the machine doing it's own thing on it's own while you are out & about (ie, while the cat's away .. .. .. ..)
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I see I stumbled into a Apple subforum...
Although the MBP (that I had to Google the meaning of) is portable, this is Africa and it's best left at home/office. I'll get my cheap-devices-i-can-take-to-the-streets @ss out of here. Sorry.

:)
 
cpu. said:
I see I stumbled into a Apple subforum...
Although the MBP (that I had to Google the meaning of) is portable, this is Africa and it's best left at home/office. I'll get my cheap-devices-i-can-take-to-the-streets @ss out of here. Sorry.

:)
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sorry about the MBP thing :D
 
Are you sure his account wasn't simply spoofed?
 
One of our users received this email and clicked the link. It then shows you a browser where you can enter Google, Outlook, AOL, Yahoo, etc email credentials. Obviously this is a phishing site. Once the login credentials are entered, nothing really happens for a few days. The BOOM, an email (pretty much the same email that was received) gets sent from the compromised account to every email the account ever sent to.

Of course the user said they never logged in, but after we checked her inbox from a few days back, we found the original email with the link. Checking the internet logs, we can see the user clicked the link. We can also see in in the account that just after the user clicked the link and entered the login credentials, the account was accessed by another IP in a different location.
 
AdrianH said:
One of our users received this email and clicked the link. It then shows you a browser where you can enter Google, Outlook, AOL, Yahoo, etc email credentials. Obviously this is a phishing site. Once the login credentials are entered, nothing really happens for a few days. The BOOM, an email (pretty much the same email that was received) gets sent from the compromised account to every email the account ever sent to.

Of course the user said they never logged in, but after we checked her inbox from a few days back, we found the original email with the link. Checking the internet logs, we can see the user clicked the link. We can also see in in the account that just after the user clicked the link and entered the login credentials, the account was accessed by another IP in a different location.
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spoke to my friend
turns out his bankers in london got "some request" supposedly originating from my friend's email address.
 
grantza said:
so i get this email from someone - we dont send each other crap & a million attachments:
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i did not click the link, but was curious to see if i hit a reply button - this is what i saw:
View attachment 118297

this mail is from a MBP to another MBP both using gmail

am i being unusually suspicious ?
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It's an obvious scam or a spoof as others have said.

Such things can also come by snail mail. The best one is the one about the new banking regulations requiring bank account verification for tax and money laundering fighting purposes. You can receive very nice "Barclays" Offshore letters with embossing and whatnot, with perfect grammar and with forms which look 100% legit asking you to fax the form and a scan of your passport to a UK/US based fax number.
 
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