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mark@pegasus
08-05-2009, 03:46 PM
Just had this emailed to me thought I'd you guys know

This is not a spoof please take note.

IF A PERSON CALLED SIMON ASHTON ( [email protected] ) CONTACTS YOU THROUGH EMAIL "DO NOT" OPEN THE MESSAGE. DELETE IT BECAUSE HE IS A HACKER!!

TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS HIM THEN YOU WILL GET HIM ON YOUR LIST.. HE WILL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID COMPUTER ADDRESS, SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE EVEN IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR THEM AND FAST BECAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR MAIL TOO!!!!!...

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled 'Mail Server Report'

If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC,
And the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software's are not capable of destroying it .

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY

Vectis
08-05-2009, 03:56 PM
Crap.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/simon25-hacker-hoax.shtml


By "emailing it to all your friends" you've fallen for the con :o

discomobiledj
08-05-2009, 03:58 PM
It does make me laugh when they all say "This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton."

It's never Apple and McAfee, or Linux and Avast

OllieJames
08-05-2009, 03:58 PM
Crap.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/simon25-hacker-hoax.shtml


By "emailing it to all your friends" you've fallen for the con :o

Yeah i just found that article too.

DeckstarDeluxe
08-05-2009, 04:06 PM
let me guess if you pass this on to 15 of your friends then in 15 minutes the women of your dreams is going to knock on your front door, just make sure the misus doesnt answer ;)

Alchemy
08-05-2009, 04:10 PM
It's the e-mail equivalent of a chain letter.

Bin it.

mark@pegasus
09-05-2009, 08:33 AM
Hey it got sent to me by my father I had no reason to suspect it a fake next I get a genuine one I won't bother posting

Solitaire Events Ltd
09-05-2009, 10:01 AM
Hey it got sent to me by my father I had no reason to suspect it a fake next I get a genuine one I won't bother posting

Why do people start throwing their toys out of their prams...

No, don't bother, thanks anyway. Most people that are on forums can probably spot these emails anyway and as far as I'm concerned these threads are a waste of time.

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