Re: Green Coffee Bean spam
Thank you all very much. I am sending this information on to my near and dear who were supposedly the senders as they are naturally quite concerned. You have allayed some of my fears, that I will not receive a cascade of green coffee beans nor have a compromised email. Best wishes, Jennifer On 10 April 2013 11:21, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Jennifer, And don't forget: Even if the from exactly matches one of your actual friends/relatives, it does not mean that either your or their email accounts have been compromised - it is easy to send an email with any from address you choose (I demonstrated this in a WAMUG post quite a while back). All it really means is that your friend/relative has had their email address harvested and included in a list of real email addresses for spammers to use. Nothing you or they can do about that. The problems can arise when you start interacting with these emails: If they have an unsubscribe link, clicking on it just confirms that your email address is live' you will probably get more spam. Clicking on links in these emails can result in downloading nasties or, more likely, being taken to dubious websites which try and spoof personal info from you. From what you say, I imagine the email was just trying to sell you a green coffee bean supplement - a fad health/diet supplement - in the same way that lots of these scams try and sell us viagra. Scambook logs a number of complaints about these emails, check: http://www.scambook.com/search/reports/p/1?search=green+coffeesort=date But only if you trust me ;o) I would suspect you have nothing to worry about provided you didn't actually go ahead and order anything ;o) HTH Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/4/13 10:40 AM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi Jennifer, check the email address carefully to see if it is indeed from a relative. The SPAM may try to look like it comes from them, but vary very slightly. If the email address is different you just need to move the two emails into your SPAM folder. That will train your email app to do likewise when it sees that address. If the emails do have the correct addresses that are in your contact list then contact them to ask if they intentionally sent the links. Then it will be over to the experts if your email has been hacked. I don't know of any solution beyond ditching that email address and starting a new one. Susan Sent from my iPad On 10/04/2013, at 9:12 AM, Jennifer Lefroy lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I have now had two emails with a link to a site spruiking green coffee beans. Unfortunately, both seemed to come from relatives who often send links and I did not check enough before opening. (Don't say it. I know!!) My question is: have two address books coincidentally been used or have I compromised my own email? If the latter, what do I do? Many thanks, Jennifer -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Green Coffee Bean spam
Hi Jennifer, check the email address carefully to see if it is indeed from a relative. The SPAM may try to look like it comes from them, but vary very slightly. If the email address is different you just need to move the two emails into your SPAM folder. That will train your email app to do likewise when it sees that address. If the emails do have the correct addresses that are in your contact list then contact them to ask if they intentionally sent the links. Then it will be over to the experts if your email has been hacked. I don't know of any solution beyond ditching that email address and starting a new one. Susan Sent from my iPad On 10/04/2013, at 9:12 AM, Jennifer Lefroy lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I have now had two emails with a link to a site spruiking green coffee beans. Unfortunately, both seemed to come from relatives who often send links and I did not check enough before opening. (Don't say it. I know!!) My question is: have two address books coincidentally been used or have I compromised my own email? If the latter, what do I do? Many thanks, Jennifer -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Green Coffee Bean spam
Hi Jennifer, And don't forget: Even if the from exactly matches one of your actual friends/relatives, it does not mean that either your or their email accounts have been compromised - it is easy to send an email with any from address you choose (I demonstrated this in a WAMUG post quite a while back). All it really means is that your friend/relative has had their email address harvested and included in a list of real email addresses for spammers to use. Nothing you or they can do about that. The problems can arise when you start interacting with these emails: If they have an unsubscribe link, clicking on it just confirms that your email address is live' you will probably get more spam. Clicking on links in these emails can result in downloading nasties or, more likely, being taken to dubious websites which try and spoof personal info from you. From what you say, I imagine the email was just trying to sell you a green coffee bean supplement - a fad health/diet supplement - in the same way that lots of these scams try and sell us viagra. Scambook logs a number of complaints about these emails, check: http://www.scambook.com/search/reports/p/1?search=green+coffeesort=date But only if you trust me ;o) I would suspect you have nothing to worry about provided you didn't actually go ahead and order anything ;o) HTH Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/4/13 10:40 AM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: Hi Jennifer, check the email address carefully to see if it is indeed from a relative. The SPAM may try to look like it comes from them, but vary very slightly. If the email address is different you just need to move the two emails into your SPAM folder. That will train your email app to do likewise when it sees that address. If the emails do have the correct addresses that are in your contact list then contact them to ask if they intentionally sent the links. Then it will be over to the experts if your email has been hacked. I don't know of any solution beyond ditching that email address and starting a new one. Susan Sent from my iPad On 10/04/2013, at 9:12 AM, Jennifer Lefroy lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I have now had two emails with a link to a site spruiking green coffee beans. Unfortunately, both seemed to come from relatives who often send links and I did not check enough before opening. (Don't say it. I know!!) My question is: have two address books coincidentally been used or have I compromised my own email? If the latter, what do I do? Many thanks, Jennifer -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
