Fake CNN alerts

[Noreen]

My Yahoo UK Mail account is getting loads of these CNN Alerts, Yahoo is putting them in the Spam folder. http://www.itworld.com/news/54157/fake-cnn-spam-mutates-attacks-continue

[somanyholes]

just looked in my spam inbox, it is also full of them....



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[Rik]

I'm only getting the Viagra ones still.

[Inactive]

I'm only getting the Viagra ones still.

They must know something that we don't.. 

[Rik]

That's the worrying bit, In.

[Inactive]

I have to say that, despite Hotmail being part of MS, I rarely get any spam at all these days.

[Noreen]

I'm only getting the Viagra ones still.

I get those too, Rik, plus others making promises of extensions which would be impossible to implement.

[Rik]

 

They don't discriminate then. 

[Simon]

I'm getting loads too, Noreen.  MailWasher deals with them.  In fact, I'm thinking of closing my Yahoo mail account, as I don't use it for anything.

[zimmerframe]

My Yahoo got one today, (probably got more now).  It was sent straight to the spam box.

[Ray]

I've been getting several of these each day for the last week or so, mine seem to be coming via my Idnet freemail account though.

[Gary]

I just had one fake email that had missed the yahoo spam filters from Xowe Hoqemix saying order confirmation like i'm going to open that, such a convincing name straight into the spam folder.

[Sebby]

They don't discriminate then. 

Even the spammers are taking human rights seriously.

[Rik]

 

[Den]

 I get virtually no spam since I joined Idnet. Certainly none for Viagra or the like.  What have I done wrong? Why are the spammers leaving alone, what have I done to deserve this? I call this discrimination of the worst kind. 

[Rik]

I can forward you some of mine, Den. (I don't get any on the IDNet addresses...)

[Noreen]

I got another five CNN Alerts on Yahoo this morning, among others of course. I've never had any spam with my IDNet addresses. I only use the latter for personal emails, for all "official" type emails I always use Yahoo which is probably why I get the spam there.

[Rik]

My spam always seems to be on my domain or Google, Noreen. The idnet.com addresses are remarkably clean, other than the forum contact address, which obviously we have to publish, so that gets hit.

[rgt247]

On my Plusnet email address I have received new spam emails with the header

msnbc.com - BREAKING NEWS: How to save money on gas

The text after breaking new can be different on mine it was "I am been sued"   

I have yet to receive any spam off my Idnet address. 

This is new after Plusnet put a fix in place Monday night to stop the CNN spam.............

[Rik]

Until the law treats spam more seriously, we'll continue to be plagued by it.

[Ann]

Yup.. the CNN ones have been replaced by the MSNBC ones.  Funny though, Eudora didn't send the CNN ones to spam so I made a filter to take care of it myself but the MSNBC ones it knows are junk.  Maybe it's the microsoft word it sees and knows must be junk.. 

[Rik]

I always preferred WordPerfect myself.

[Inactive]

 

[Rik]

True though.

[Gary]

Until the law treats spam more seriously, we'll continue to be plagued by it.

I doubt it will ever stop Rik, on googlemail I have cheap watches, and buy a university diploma, as my spam at the moment oh and those "your bank/building society account" has been compromised, you know the ones, from banks and building societies you are  not even with