Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] Hello, do you recognize me?

17 November 2014

Re: [DIY] Hello, do you recognize me?

I don't think it was Dale. Nobody should respond to that.

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 16, 2014, at 11:10 AM, "subprong subprong@gmail.com [DoIt_Yourself]" <DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

When you all respond to the phishing messages, you are basically spamming the group because you are continuing to email and air the link in the previous messages. At the very least, delete or clip out the link if you need to respond.

On another note, are we for sure that the other recent message by Dale (asking for email and contact information) was actually Dale himself? That doesn't really sound like him for some reason. Not quite sure but I wouldn't send your private information to the group.

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:28 AM, 'aki' 01dyna@gmail.com [DoIt_Yourself] <DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

All,

This is NOT the person who owns this account that is sending this spam out. The account was hacked into by some miscreant guessing the email password. Then they use the account to send out any number of types of spam.

You can quit but the next time it could be YOUR account that gets hacked.

If you suspect or see that your email is being used to send out spam, immediately change your accounts password.

Members – if you see a post like this, do NOT click on the link EVER! All kinds of things can happen from something as innocuous
as redirecting you to non-family friendly websites to downloading an infected payload that will steal your address book
of friends as well as credit card information and install a keylogger to log any passwords you may enter….even a program that
will steal all that info and then trash your computer so it can't even boot up (maybe even permanently as some viruses can permanently destroy your hard drive so you can't ever reuse it even if you have backups).

If you DO click on the link (and gawd only knows why ANYONE in this day and age would even THINK of doing that), update
your anti-virus program and run a FULL scan on your pc and change your passwords...especially to accounts that
access sensitive financial or medical information like banks, credit unions, Paypal, express scripts, medco or any other account that has credit card information stored or will cause you serious financial or identity damage if compromised.

-aki
DIY Moderator and IT CIO for 30 years