Sorry if this is in the wrong place

In case you don't know, if you see a mail from an MSN contact of yours, which has this content:

it isn't an MSN buddy, it may be a hack or something trying to steal email addresses..

The reason I'm letting you know is because the email is supposedly from an MSN contact.

Hope I haven't made a pointless thread or anything.

Thanks for sharing this 830 - and information like yours that can be shared especially when it can protect our privacy is always welcomed.

I certainly don't think this is pointless! :)

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Since Peter hasn't deleted my account yet, I thought I'd add to this.

I've actually received the email as well, from one of my sisters, but a few others have also got it (as in my sisters) from other people. From what we've gathered so far, is that if you actually *open the email* it doesn't do any harm. BUT.. if you *click the link* then it sends the email to all your friends in your contacts list. So you end up receiving the email from a friend thinking it's genuine, and then pop... you press the link, and the same thing happens to you and your contacts.

I could be wrong about when you open the actual email. But I'm just basing that on a few people that I know that use Windows (and myself using Mac) that when we've opened the email but haven't clicked the link, then it's been okay (we think, anyway..). Thankfully I didn't click the link either, as I thought that was a weird email that my sister sent, lol.

Thanks for posting it, 830

Funny you should mention it 830, I received that style of e-mail from you :P

I didn't think that the text is your style of writing, so I just ignored it.

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hm. i got that email from someone. but tbh....no one really talks like that do they? ...at least no one i know anyway XD

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Yep, my apologies for sending that to people too.

I opened it because it did honestly sound like the person who sent it to me....a very very stupid move on my part because I never do things like that!

I just changed my email password and hopefully it's petering out. It's an annoyance more than anything, I think....but it has also sparked some people to send me emails asking me what's up. I've done that too...got a stupid spam email from one of my friends, and we ended up having a very nice email conversation for a few days :P

Those spammers keep us in touch with our friends at least!

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Apology . . . accepted

On the sent to field, it remains blank. So that is an indicator that it's possible spam

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Genetically, paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me. Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact

the way it is written looks like one of the many porn emails I ge that I forgot to unsubscribe from

You seem rather reluctant to give me that acceptance :P

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