BS: ShoppyBag

Subject: BS: ShoppyBag
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 12:15 PM

I have received 4 requests from Mudcatters, via e-mail. Asking me to join this ShoppyBag site. I am told it's a viral thing which invades your e-mail, and mails all your contacts, and on no account should I open it, or supply the information asked for.
The Cattersd involved are Nick Apollonio, and Kendall Morse, both of whom would be on each other's contact list.
PLease be aware

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: gnu
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 02:04 PM

What's the subject/title of the email? Perhaps you, and Kendall and Nick could (have?) report it to your ISP.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 02:17 PM

Can't tell you exactly g, it's all been deleted, but it does mention ShoppyBag

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: gnu
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 02:20 PM

At any rate, glad you alerted us all.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: kendall
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 02:39 PM

God damn virus bastards

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: kendall
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 02:42 PM

I got it from Nick but I refused to allow it into my info.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 03:45 PM

Yes, I got it from Nick too. It purports to be sending you a photo to open.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 03:50 PM

I trashed one ShoppyBag that I received from `Kendall`. He knows my e-mail address and there is NO way he`d ever contact me from a strange kinda site like that.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Van
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 04:29 PM

if you Google it there are 213,000 results and the few I read reflect the above views. (I only read the precis I didn't open any of the sites)

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 04:49 PM

I had one too - From Kendall , but I dont like sites like that so didnt bother 'logging on' just to (Possibly) look at a photo of me .

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 06:19 PM

I heavily suspect all such sites and requests -- usually with good reason. It's not the sort of thing Kendall would be likely to send, either.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: kendall
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 07:44 PM

Absolutely not!

How did this get by my virus killer?

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Van
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:25 PM

Perhaps a bit of thread creep but I know a young woman who goes shopping lifting. So much more poetic than the more mundane shoplifting but no more legal for all that.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:31 PM

A data miner program isn't a virus. At some point, you probably clicked something that gave the website permission to access your address book. I got this (my Gmail account) from Nick last night and clicked on the link, but when it wanted me to sign up to look at the alleged photo, I left.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: gnu
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:38 PM

Now... if it was for leather jackets endorsed by Kendall???

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:42 PM

Yeah, I think it's a data miner for marketers. It wants you to enter some info and sign up. I did not do so.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 29 Dec 10 - 08:43 PM

Nor did I. I got suspicious and left.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: GUEST,999
Date: 30 Dec 10 - 07:21 PM

Refresh.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 05:11 PM

grrrrr. I was alerted by my ISP that there were some 'failures' in an group email I had sent out.

Just about the same time a friend called me and asked whether she is supposed to open the attachment. Thinking immediately of this thread I told her NO.

I had NOT sent out a group mail but the addresses are from my Contacts list. I have deleted the list and will manually re-enter the list and let friends know that 'twarn't I.

Like Kendall, I was wondering how it got past my virus protection but a data miner makes sense. Looking at the ISP message I couldn't even figure out what I was supposed to have sent out.

This is a strange, strange world.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 05:31 PM

It is a damned good thing real life ain't like this. I'd hate to be held responsible for sendin' a baboon or a gorilla to every front door on my entire business and personal address list. You can lose friends that way.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 08:50 PM

It's akin to an unsolicited grope.. Well, no, much worse.
Sorry Becca.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 12:41 PM

Right.
Dad, have you changed your email password since this started? Don't know if it'll help in this case, but it worked when something similar happened to me a couple months ago. I have gotten it from you in my Yahoo Spam folder several times (I've also gotten it from Nick a time or two).

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: GUEST,999
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 01:21 PM

I just received another and it went directly to trash. FYI

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 01:38 PM

I just got another one too.
It's easy enough to fake a "from" address after the individual's address book has been harvested, or someone else's address book simply containing the address the mail is supposed to be from.

This is why, if you're the type to send out mass e-mails, you should send them to "BCC". If ANY one of the people on the list of addresses gets infected or hacked, ALL of the names/addresses will be collected.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: maeve
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 02:16 PM

And that's why I keep asking friends and contacts to never use my email in a group or forwarded email unless it's in the BCC field.

Subject: RE: BS: ShoppyBag
From: EBarnacle
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 02:21 PM

It's also one of the reasons I avoid Outlook Express. My e-mail has no reason to be downloaded to my hard drive.