Hi Steve, Thanks for those reassurances. The message I received was also from a hotmail account and had the green image. "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. " I just click on windows mail to open it - should I put some sort of password on the icon, and will it help? Sorry if I'm being dense. Martin
----- Original Message ----- From: 'Steve Kodź' via Quantum Owners Group To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2018 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [Quantum Owners] Barry the painter? 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....... 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