Martin,
I have recently received a strange that sounds similar to the one you
received. Mine had the subject "Re: Fw: My silver Q" and had a green
image labelled "Display Message" - attached is a screen capture of that
image which is safe to view.
The image if clicked would lead to a website link that I strongly
suspect would try to download malware. Therefore if anyone else is
receiving unexpected emails like this be very careful when opening them.
As a general rule if you are not expecting an email do not trust its
contents. This is especially true for any emails relating to payments
and/or invoices. The bad guys has started compromising company email
accounts and sending out emails requesting backing/payment details are
updated to their back account rather than the legitimate owner. If you
receive emails of this nature from someone you know always call them on
a known number (do not use a number on their signature as that might be
updated too!) to confirm.
To answer Martin's question I would think it is more likely that someone
else has their computer/email account compromised. My email came from a
Hotmail account, but I do not see that account within this group.
To minimise the risk of an email account becoming compromised I would
strongly recommend a good password (think of something ~17 characters
long) that is unique to that account. Also all the big email providers,
Facebook, Twitter etc will offer some form of 2-factor authentication
and this should be enabled. A long password might be difficult to
remember, so utilise a decent password manager so you only have to
remember a single strong password. For work and personal reasons I have
over 200 passwords and without a password manager I wouldn't have a hope
of remembering them all - I only have 3 that I need to remember and the
reset are stored in password managers.
I know from professional experience that companies are losing money to
the bad guys via this type of social engineering so please be cautious
when opening emails.
Regards,
Steve
On 30/12/2018 16:27, Susan and Martin Scott wrote:
Hi all,
hope all Quantumers (not forgetting other kit car owners) had a
good Christmas! I had a message this morning entitled "Brush painting
gel coat" from someone called Barry. If Barry has my email via the
group that's not a problem, but the message had no script, just
attachment so looked suspicious I deleted it. If Barry wants to pick
my brains then no problem, can he send another note!
To Jim, Steve or other techi people....... Is it possible (or even
likely) that my computer had been infiltrated by someone who's
gathered a subject and my email name (which isn't used in many places)
and sent something malicious?
Martin
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