[ATTENTION] Recent Email Scam

[Confucius]

Glad I didn't get this would be hard changing all my passwords from stuff about pandas, thanks for the warning apoc!

[Nikentic]

I pressed the link in bawx, not through the mail :P

[Reflection]

Yeah me too, I have done a system restore now though so I'm all good Changed all passwords etc as well.

[treyska]

Looked fishy enough to me. Didn't click.

[blackwater938]

glad i never checks my emails...

[Heliumz]

lol why I did not receive this? but I received the second email.

[Apoc]

lol why I did not receive this? but I received the second email.

Probably because we had banned the person responsible before they got a chance to send out too many emails.

I left the emailer running for a few hours just to make sure I got everyone I possibly could. (The attacker only had ~25 minutes of emails sent [500 emails every 40s]) So chances are, you're just out of range of the scam email, but in the range of the one I sent out.

[psychobandit]

Dear Psychobandit.

How can they know it's an 'unsolicited' e-mail? It appears to be from the MMOwned Admin, geez.
And how can you verify it's legitimate before you open it?

Please take this with some salt, as I haven't checked my mail and I haven't seen the link.

But whatever, people who got infected got infected. People who didn't GZ .
Great handling btw Apoc. <3

O.K......Seriously??? How can they know it's unsolicited? Unsolicited means they didn't ask for the e-mail, Hence, unsolicited. But ignore all that because maybe everyone is crazy enough to have MMowned mail everything to them so let's move on to--> how can they verify it's legitimate? Log on to MMowned & ask/see if it was mailed intentionally. Very easy

Like I said, I asked this BECAUSE of all the repeated bombardments of adware/spyware/identity theft e-mails we all get all the time, why on earth would you trust anything e-mailed? with a link no less. I mean, I trust my mother but She got a virus, which got into her address book & mass mailed to everyone in there. Looked like a link my mom would send but it was a virus. This happens all the time! (not with my mom, but in general :lmao.

And one last point, I gotta quote the person below me

You're an idiot for clicking on a .tk link >.>

Though I would have been more polite about it :lmao:

And again, this isn't meant to be rude or mean in any way, I am just baffled by it & had to ask.

[JD]

Glad I use a mac No .exe virusses for me ****as!

[darkpatato]

Glad I use a mac No .exe virusses for me ****as!

Nice mate :P
im glad i didnt click the link on shoutbawx but i clicked it on mail..

[Reflection]

Nice mate :P
im glad i didnt click the link on shoutbawx but i clicked it on mail..

I'm not sure how you'd click the link in the shoutbawx though seeing as you are a leecher.

[[Pat]]

Glad I use a mac No .exe virusses for me ****as!

it was a java based exploit that when ran uploaded an .exe to your PC. I'm sure there is a mac version.

http://antivirus.about.com/od/macint...cvirusfaqs.htm

[Min0rity]

Dear Psychobandit.

How can they know it's an 'unsolicited' e-mail? It appears to be from the MMOwned Admin, geez.
And how can you verify it's legitimate before you open it?

Please take this with some salt, as I haven't checked my mail and I haven't seen the link.

But whatever, people who got infected got infected. People who didn't GZ .
Great handling btw Apoc. <3

I like to add onto this. With my complaint;

When an unidentified email and/or a trustworthy email just so happens to give me a link, i hover my mouse over it (im using firefox) and the true link is revealed in a toolbar just at the bottom left. If it matches the same as the link specified in the email than i shalt click otherwise i ignore and trash it.

But hey, whos smart enough to ever consider that.

[neverdying]

Thx for the warning ...

[mmosuper]

I'll keep a lookout