Scam emails

[STEED]

In the last seven days I have rec'd large numbers of Bank scam emails, most of them are UK Banks and some from America. Anyone else getting a ton of these scams?

I report what I can but some banks don't make it easy for you to forward these scams to them to look at. After I've done my bit I mark them all scam, heck my blocked addresses has rocketed over the last few days.

[Jimbuna]

Had two this week and try to report them as fraud or porn to the appropriate authority/people

Problem is, they just keep on coming if you continue to look at rude sites

[STEED]

Porn=Virus.

No thank you.

[Skybird]

IE7:

Block cookies in general and define manually which ones you accept. Keep general security settings at high, only temporarily at medium when needed at a given site you need to go. Read that I said: NEED to go. Such is the case only extremely rarely. For example when wanting to format text entries in thos forum (hint-hint)

OE:

Kill, crush and destroy that damn adress book. Send the messenger into the abyss. Deactivate automatic message preview.

Windows: deactivate remote access functions, deactivate automatic update functions and other automatic tings. I hate my computer doing things automatically. that damn thing has to do what I order it to do, and when I order it to do, not more, not less, not earlier, not later, and only when I press the button. Every function beyond that is a wide, open parading road for hostile invasion.

Following these advices, scam and spam is something that is a problem of the past over here. Both IE and OE are much better than their reputation, you just need to keep their settings very tight, run a decent firewall and other scanners, and must not visit every idiotic place there is and whose only purpose is to bring you into trouble.

You could also test the safety and stealthiness of your ports by using the oinline tests of ShieldsUp! In the basic tests, you want to see not a single port unstealthed.

[kurtz]

I've even had the from (purportedly) The Islamic Bank of Great Britain, assuming I get these from Mrs Kurtz's website it's sort of strange anyone looking at that would not sort me into the Muslim category, Liberal as I may be

[STEED]

Originally Posted by kurtz

I've even had the from (purportedly) The Islamic Bank of Great Britain, assuming I get these from Mrs Kurtz's website it's sort of strange anyone looking at that would not sort me into the Muslim category, Liberal as I may be

Mass emailing. Never got that one, yet.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

Mass emailing. Never got that one, yet.

......hang on a minute

Originally Posted by STEED

In the last seven days I have rec'd large numbers of Bank scam emails, most of them are UK Banks and some from America. Anyone else getting a ton of these scams?

I report what I can but some banks don't make it easy for you to forward these scams to them to look at. After I've done my bit I mark them all scam, heck my blocked addresses has rocketed over the last few days.

This is probably who's behind it:

http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/listin...ness%20Network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Business_Network

These guys are ruthless.

BTW, the e-mail addresses in the "from" address - don't bother blocking them - those are forged. They rarely use the same one twice.