Odd emails from escorts last night?

[bobchitown]

Sometime overnight I got 2 odd emails in my google account, the similarities were:

 

both from escorts known to me, and are in my contacts

both use yahoo accounts

both messages had been sent to a number of addresses, which could be viewed by me

both had nothing more than a URL in the body of the the message

although I didn't click on them (I'm not THAT stupid!), googling on the URL indicated that both were for seemingly random but legitimate Spanish language websites.

 

Anybody else get something similar.

 

I've already emailed both guys, and suspect that their yahoo accounts may have been hacked, since I don't have any other odd behavior I can see on my gmail account, which is otherwise acting normally.

[Diverdan]

YES, I got one of these over night from one of our most well known escorts... same thing, only a URL which of course I immediately double deleted. I have not written back to him, but plan to do so shortly.

DD

[+ purplekow]

I received one from Romann i am sure it was not from him now but I did open it but did not open the link

[josephga]

I even got one. I just looked it's in my spam folder from David SF It has the words coastrealestate in the link

[gcursor]

um...ok...I didn't get one anywhere.

 

so it had to come from them and not from your address book, correct?

Gcursor

[Okliehomo]

Don't open the llink....

 

if you got that email... it's not from David. His email account was hacked. He emailed me this morning and asked me to let you all know. He is in the south of France on a cruise and has limited access to email, but he wanted to assure you all that he is changing his passwords etc...

 

Okie

[Steven_Draker]

This issue has been discussed before. Apparently someone has accessing his yahoo account thru a non-secure Wi-Fi network.

[jawjateck]

Not only did I receive those emails, which I didn't open, but I also regularly receive a junk email claiming to be from one of our participating escorts with a link to a "greeting card", just another spam scam.

[+ Travis69]

My computer did the same thing last winter after receiving that type of email from a friend. Randomly selected email addresses from my address book. Sent out the same type of email on 2 occassions 3 months apart. I do not have a yahoo account. Anyone who received one will most likely do the same thing to others in their email address book. Might be today. Might be 3 months from now.

[bobchitown]

I've been in contact with David this morning, and he said much the same thing to me. A small clarification to your message. The mail did come from his account, but he did not send it. Almost certainly a hacker.

[+ deej]

Almost certainly a hacker.

 

Far more likely a virus or other drone malware.

 

Since the Murdoch exploits (and claims from various celebs and Cong. Weiner), everyone blames everything that goes bump in the night on a hacker but that doesn't make it so.

[bobchitown]

Anyone who received one will most likely do the same thing to others in their email address book. Might be today. Might be 3 months from now.

 

Far more likely a virus or other drone malware. Since the Murdoch exploits (and claims from various celebs and Cong. Weiner), everyone blames everything that goes bump in the night on a hacker but that doesn't make it so.

 

So, is there some way those of us who received these messages sniff out potential malware? I didn't click on any of the links, and I "double deleted" the messages from my gmail account. Other than that, I don't know what else I can do. Oh - I also changed my password just in case.

[+ Charlie]

I also got one from David and deleted it without opening the link. Now what should I do?

[KMEM]

Cover your computer with plastic. They are going to blow out the lines in a few minutes.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[+ deej]

There is nothing any mail recipient can do about mail being sent from elsewhere except delete it.

 

If you have a decent spam filter, it will probably trap obviously forged senders. (Gmail is excellent at this.) But otherwise, there's nothing for the recipient to do.

 

There's probably not much for the "sender" to do, either, because he's probably not the actual sender. Some bot somewhere is sending out mail using his address as "from". I'd bet money they're not coming from his computer, and if they are the obvious solution is to turn it off. But that won't be the case, so there's no course of action.

 

The spammer "pot of gold" is a list of addresses that are (or at one time were) "known to be good". They use bots, viruses, and malware to collect these lists out of your contacts. Once they have them, it's open season.

[gcursor]

and if you feel that you might have malware, then you can try MALWAREBYTES anti-malware free program and/or LAVASOFT ad-aware to scan your computer and deal with any issues.

Gcursor

[Lookin]

Cover your computer with plastic. They are going to blow out the lines in a few minutes.

Good one, KMEM! http://www.maleescortreview.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.png

[uwsman2]

I had this problem with my aol account several months ago. It seems that everybody in my address book got identical spam purporting to come from me. I knew that was the case because my address book had lots of obsolete email addresses in it, so my in-box was full of identical bouncebacks. I took the occasion to clean up my address book and change my aol password. The spam email clearly did not come from my computer, because my computer was turned off overnight and the date/time stamp on the emails indicated they had been sent while my computer was turned off.

[leigh.bess.toad]

Although I didn't receive the version this time around, I have gotten them in the past. The most recent incident was from another forum member who I communicate with off the forum. There is a very special place in hell for the jackasses that do things like that.

[Guest Spanky]

Deej, I often get spam from myself. When I check with people in my contacts, no one else ever reports getting the same spam. Do you know what that's all about?

 

It's normally for viagra, so maybe one of my other personalities is trying to send me a message?

[+ deej]

Deej, I often get spam from myself. When I check with people in my contacts, no one else ever reports getting the same spam. Do you know what that's all about?

 

It's normally for viagra, so maybe one of my other personalities is trying to send me a message?

 

It's a common spammer technique. They use the recipient's email address as the sender's address because it's more likely to make it through a spam filter. (Few people blacklist their own address in their spam filter, and you probably wouldn't want to anyway.)

 

A really good spam filter can catch these by examining headers. Gmail is exceptionally good at it.

[+ Gar1eth]

Just to join the club, I received one from David's email too. I knew he was out of the country--so when it only had a link in it, I figured it was most likely spam or a virus of some type. I planned to talk to him when he returned in case it turned out to be legitimate, but now I don't have to.

 

Gman

[leigh.bess.toad]

I received an email this afternoon from another forum member about something called hightechinteriors. Among the recipents of this email, besides myself, included andrew justice. So something seems to be working its way through both clients and escorts email addy books.

[+ Gar1eth]

Not only did I receive those emails, which I didn't open, but I also regularly receive a junk email claiming to be from one of our participating escorts with a link to a "greeting card", just another spam scam.

 

Be careful though--Romann often sends e-mail card. But I think he uses American Greetings.

 

Gman

[jawjateck]

In my case, since I value my laptop and the files stored on it, the careful action is to delete them immediately without reading them. Some of the greeting cards may be legit, but 2 years ago I clicked a link on one of them which installed malware on my laptop. Total havoc, and dang near lost some very important work saved on the hard drive. After that experience, no matter the source, I delete all such emails immediately without opening. Certainly, I have deleted some ok emails from friends, family, trusted escorts, etc, but I don't take the chance on an email that I will just delete anyway about ten seconds after I open it. If the email has a spam or mass distribution wording in the subject line or uses a phrase outside my lingo or comes from a source that I am not expecting to receive any correspondence or is a "forward" of some must read topic, I hit delete! It sure feels good to have my laptop still working.

 

Just this morning, another escort's email account spammed me. I emailed the guy months ago but never met him. Delete.