[TechAssist] Re: Warning- watch out for fake RETURNED MAIL messages in your inboxes
- From: "teltek3" <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bil Green" <tv.vcrrepair@xxxxxxxxxxx>,"Gary McCartney" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:09:45 -0400
I don't even bother opening these up, I just delete them. Nothing I send is
so important that I have to lose sleep over why it didn't get there.
-Ed-
Tel-Tek Electronics
Ontario-Canada
teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bil Green" <tv.vcrrepair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Gary McCartney" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:07 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Warning- watch out for fake RETURNED MAIL messages
in your inboxes
> Hi Gary,
>
> Thanks for the warning. This would be one of the easiest mistakes for
> someone that sends out a lot of e-mails. Up till now I have always
> trusted e-mails titled "Returned Mail".
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Bil Green
> 2001 TV VCR
> Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546
> 760-934-2001 mailto:tv.vcrrepair@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 11:54:38 AM, you wrote:
>
> GM> I just got an email entitled: "Returned mail: see transcript for
> GM> details"
>
>
> GM> See copy below (minus the attachment of course). I never sent this
email
> GM> to the addressee and I never attached a file called "Your
document.pif"
>
> GM> This is obviously a worm ready to be executed if I would click on the
> GM> file, which I won't. I will delete the email instead.
>
> GM> I figured it is important to let the list members know about this
before
> GM> anyone accidently clicks on a file in a similar type of email.
>
>
> GM> Gary McCartney
>
> GM> McCartney Electronics
> GM> Guelph Ontario Canada
> GM> Est. 1984
> GM> email: gary (at) number63.ca
>
>
>
GM> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------
>
>
> GM> COPY OF EMAIL:
>
> GM> Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
> GM> Date:
> GM> Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:42:04 +0200
> GM> From:
> GM> Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> GM> To:
> GM> <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
>
> GM> The original message was received at Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:41:56 +0200
> GM> from adsl-65-65-202-89.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [65.65.202.89]
>
> GM> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> GM> <gyeublitzkrieg24@xxxxxxx>
> GM> (reason: 550 unknown user <gyeublitzkrieg24@xxxxxxx>)
>
> GM> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> GM> ... while talking to mail.comb.es.:
> >>>> RCPT To:<gyeublitzkrieg24@xxxxxxx>
> GM> <<< 550 unknown user <gyeublitzkrieg24@xxxxxxx>
> GM> 550 5.1.1 <gyeublitzkrieg24@xxxxxxx>... User unknown
>
>
>
>
> GM> Reporting-MTA: dns; webs.comb.es
> GM> Received-From-MTA: DNS; adsl-65-65-202-89.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net
> GM> Arrival-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:41:56 +0200
>
> GM> Final-Recipient: RFC822; gyeublitzkrieg24@xxxxxxx
> GM> Action: failed
> GM> Status: 5.1.1
> GM> Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.comb.es
> GM> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 unknown user <gyeublitzkrieg24@xxxxxxx>
> GM> Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:42:04 +0200
>
>
> GM> Subject:
> GM> Re: Approved
> GM> Date:
> GM> Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:59:19 --0500
> GM> From:
> GM> <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> GM> To:
> GM> <gyeublitzkrieg24@xxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> GM> See the attached file for details
>
>
>
> GM> your_document.pif
>
> GM> Name:
> GM> your_document.pif
> GM> Type:
> GM> Shortcut to MS-DOS Program
> GM> (application/x-unknown-content-type-piffile)
> GM> Encoding:
> GM> base64
> GM> --
>
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