Re: How's this for a cunning piece of spam.

Jonathan Lewis wrote:

> The following message appeared in my email
> with a FROM address of:
> antivirus_at_isd3.timesgroup.com
>
> ===================================================
>
> Vexira has detected the following in a mail from your address:
>
> Worm/Sobig.F virus
>
> The mail was not delivered.
>
> Your computer may be infected with a virus! Please visit
> Central Command at http://www.centralcommand.com and obtain a copy
> of Vexira AntiVirus now.
>
> ===================================================
>
> Now, if I were a cynical, bitter and suspicious person,
> it might cross my mind that every anti-virus company
> in the world could spam every known email address
> from just about every other known email address with
> a message that claimed to be from a user of their anti-virus
> software that had detected a virus in an email from the
> first email address..
>
> Would a software company really be that underhand ?
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Lewis
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
>
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> The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ
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Not every one of them ... but obviously this one.

Hopefully your posting will alert others to ignore them.

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Daniel Morgan
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