POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : email scam : Re: email scam Server Time
7 Sep 2024 03:22:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: email scam  
From: Warp
Date: 11 Aug 2008 09:58:11
Message: <48a04572@news.povray.org>
Jim Holsenback <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Most who read these groups are quick enough to spot an email scam. I'm just 
> passing this on just in case you know someone who might be trusting enough 
> to fall for it.

> email appears to be from Midwest Airlines until you notice the spoofed 
> address in the header .... it says your credit card has been charged and a 
> zip file is attached called eticket.zip

> anyway just to be on the safe side I had a look at my credit card balance 
> online ... no unusual activity. I called MidWest and they ask me to forward 
> the message to them.

> So heads up!

  No offense, but if I made a post here every time I receive a spam email
pretending to be something else and with an attached file (zip, exe or
whatever), these posts would outnumber the other posts here 10:1.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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