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Hamhock
6/7/2006, 08:11 AM
So, there are lost of people on the innerweb that care about me. I get several e-mails/day from friends concerned about my erections and girth, wanting to refinance my mortgage and offering to send me truckloads of Val/ium for dirt cheap.

Yesterday I received a weird e-mail...from ME. The name in both the From and To box was my e-mail address. The subject was "557" and the message was "969". What does this mean? Did someone actually hack into my e-mail and send me a message? Is it the feds? What should I do? Is my sensitive information (see previous note about girth) safe?

Serious answers only please.

TIA

p.s. Should I be posting the daily stock tips I receive via e-mail? I hate for you guys to miss out.
yermom
6/7/2006, 08:15 AM
anyone can send email as anyone else, it kinda sucks

lots of viruses will spoof email addresses it finds from people's address books, or cached webpages
crawfish
6/7/2006, 08:17 AM
I got that same email yesterday. Just delete it.
Hamhock
6/7/2006, 08:18 AM
I got that same email yesterday. Just delete it.


FROM ME?!?!? :texan:
Howzit
6/7/2006, 08:22 AM
FROM ME?!?!? :texan:

For future reference, it is extremely difficult to interpret a post as being of a serious nature when it includes a :texan:.
Hamhock
6/7/2006, 08:24 AM
For future reference, it is extremely difficult to interpret a post as being of a serious nature when it includes a :texan:.


For present reference, it wasn't of a serious nature. :texan:


;)
Hamhock
6/7/2006, 08:25 AM
anyone can send email as anyone else, it kinda sucks

lots of viruses will spoof email addresses it finds from people's address books, or cached webpages


By why waste the time of just sending a couple of numbers???

Don't they care that my wife isn't satisfied in the bedroom???
Howzit
6/7/2006, 08:26 AM
For present reference, it wasn't of a serious nature. :texan:


;)

The this-thread starter was quite explicit and laying out the rules.
yermom
6/7/2006, 08:29 AM
By why waste the time of just sending a couple of numbers???

Don't they care that my wife isn't satisfied in the bedroom???

i'm not sure, i get totally blank ones sometimes

i'm wondering if they are just test runs to see what addresses bounce or to make sure the script or whatever works
GDC
6/7/2006, 08:30 AM
when in doubt throw it out
Howzit
6/7/2006, 08:30 AM
By why waste the time of just sending a couple of numbers???

Don't they care that my wife isn't satisfied in the bedroom???

Maybe they are just trolling to see if you reply to yourself.
Hamhock
6/7/2006, 08:33 AM
The this-thread starter was quite explicit and laying out the rules.


You are absolutely correct. I didn't see that. I've reported my post.
Hamhock
6/7/2006, 08:33 AM
Maybe they are just trolling to see if you reply to yourself.


Won't that cause hair to grow on your keyboard?