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Uncle_DaveO Tech: My email name spoofed BEWARE (21) Tech: My email name spoofed BEWARE 05 Dec 16


This morning I found, in my INBOX, an email purporting
to be from me, "DOESTERR", dated yesterday. The subject line was
"Wife Out of Control".

Whaa?? I didn't remember sending such a message, either
to myself or to anyone else. So I looked in the SEND
directory, and no such message had been sent.

The email as received contained nothing, but there was
an attachment, 8.3 KB in size. I absolutely will not
download it.

I assume that my email name was spoofed and that attachment
was sent to some unknown list. That, or my name was one
of the members of a spam list, set up to show the name of
the recipient also as the originator.

WARNING! Any emails purporting to be from me are probably
fake,and malware. If you know otherwise that I'm planning
to send you an email, it just MIGHT be what it claims to
be, but if there is no text to the email, and only an
attachment, DON'T OPEN IT!

Dave Oesterreich


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