Virus Warning

[belgareth]

This is a real warning

that I recieved from UPS today. They send these out too people that have accounts with them every now and then.




Attention Virus Warning

We have become aware there is a fraudulent

e-mail being sent that says it is coming from UPS and leads the reader to believe that a UPS shipment could not be

delivered. The reader is advised to open an attachment reportedly containing a waybill for the shipment to be picked

up.

This e-mail attachment contains a virus. We recommend that you do not open the

attachment, but delete the e-mail immediately.

UPS may send official notification messages on

occasion, but they rarely include attachments. If you receive a notification message that includes an attachment and

are in doubt about its authenticity, please contact

customerservice@ups.com.



Please note that UPS takes its customer relationships very seriously, but cannot take responsibility

for the unauthorized actions of third parties.

Thank you for your attention.

[Rbt]

My personal rule of thumb is to

never open ANY email attachement, period.

If the company is really trying to contact me, I should be able to log

in to their legit website and get info there. Pretty much the same with links (but I think most everybody knows

that). My old AOL software used to show the Headers as part of the email (and didn't do HTML) so I could easily see

where things were coming from and see the code and "real" links. I never knew PayPal was headquartered in Romania

before....

[idesign]

With a very busy branch office

in Nigeria...

[Rbt]

A bud of mine recently got an email

about a poor mister Stude Baker who died in an auto accident and they needed to transfer a whole bunch of money...

etc etc..


Stude Baker... Studebaker.... auto accidient


groan......


Who next? Mr. Honda? Dame

Lexus? King Kia?

[belgareth]

I got one today that was a

little confused. It was entitled Yahoo Awards

Center and came from BRITISH MICROSOFT E-MAIL

SELECT AWARD FROM HEAD OFFICES LONDON using a Hotmail address.The

winner is instructed to contact a S. African Attorney!

[Mtnjim]

Too late Bel, I already applied for

the prize.