From:Glenda Clark [yianniskalaitzakis@s109.loopia.se]
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Glenda Clark sent you a 1 personal messageDate: 1/10/2013
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The actual destination of the links in this email goes to: http://123-beach-resort.com/caverns.html (don't click on this link either!!)
Here is another one I got tonight was well (and the actual destination of the links goes to http://cgssac.com/headland.html, so don't click on it!!!)
From:Andrea Cook [Cook1972@server41.campusspeicher.de]
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In the emails I got like the following:
ReplyDelete(LinkedIn REMINDERS
Invitation reminders:
From Bryan Johnson (Marketing & Admin Manager at ReConsulting Ltd)
PENDING MESSAGES
There are a total of 6 messages awaiting your response. Go to InBox now. .......... etc
Anyhow the point is that the links under the From "name" and the "Go InBox now" were not to an http reference but were to:
x-msg://19/?c002 Also there was an IP address from Israel in the raw source email.
Does anyone know what the x-msg link, if it is that, means?
x-msg:// is a thing that gets added to the beginning of links in emails that have not been formed properly. The x-msg tries to make it a valid link for the email reader.
ReplyDeleteBut of course, in this case, the point is NEVER click on these gake links from scammers, lest you download spyware or other malicious software unknowingly to your computer.
Thanks for your example of this scam email.
Bonjour
ReplyDeleteSuite de votre courrier je tiens à vous informé que je suis un consultant en investissement privé basé à Cotonou en République du Bénin en contact direct depuis quelques semaines avec une cliente à moi qui souhaite investir dans les secteurs d’activités suivants :
- Energie Renouvelable
- L’import-export
- Le tourisme
- L’immobilier
- Le transport
Vous pouvez me proposez un secteur d’activité rentable qui pourra nous permettra de travailler ensemble.
Une chose est que vous devez savoir qu’il y aura un contrat de partenariat et de gestion de fonds qui va lier vous et ma cliente. Ce contrat sera rédiger par un notaire et je vous enverrai un exemplaire si vous êtes intéressé par ce partenariat.
Nous serons très heureux de vous recevoir ici à Cotonou au Bénin pour la signature, l’officialisation et l’enregistrement du contrat auprès des autorités compétentes.
J’attends votre réponse afin que nous puissions évoluer.
Très cordialement.
nicolaslawson25@gmail.com
I got one from a Hari Morgan, so I left my email and went to LinkedIn and checked the name, it doesn't exist. I always check the original site before clicking something unknown. Fortunately my email had already married this as spam, but we do have to verify that everything is truly spam. To summarize again check the original source site before clicking the convenient link, a little more time and effort but worth it.
ReplyDeleteI got one from a Hari Morgan, so I left my email and went to LinkedIn and checked the name, it doesn't exist. I always check the original site before clicking something unknown. Fortunately my email had already married this as spam, but we do have to verify that everything is truly spam. To summarize again check the original source site before clicking the convenient link, a little more time and effort but worth it.
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