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More Power
03-03-2004, 08:17
It seems email virus scams occur in cycles. Beginning yesterday, I began receiving short email messages with a variety of attachments ( .zip, .pdf, .doc, etc.).

If you receive any, do not open any of them.

The discouraging thing about these messages is that they appear to originate from people or organizations you know. The intention is to give the recipient confidence when deciding whether to open the attachment. Again, do not open any attachment.

What follows is an example of just one of these email virus scam messages I received this morning. This message did not come from us. I received a variety of additional messages with attachments that were made to appear to originate from other senders.

MP
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X-From_: turbo@thedieselpage.com Wed Mar 3 07:07:00 2004
Return-Path: <turbo@thedieselpage.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:13:34 -0500
To: turbo@thedieselpage.com
Subject: Notify about your e-mail account utilization.
From: management@thedieselpage.com

Dear user, the management of TheDieselPage.com mailing system wants to let you know that,

Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days,
to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free
auto-forwarding service.

For further details see the attach.

For security purposes the attached file is password protected. Password is "44253".

Cheers,
The TheDieselPage.com team http://www.theDieselPage.com

Attachment Converted: C:\DLOAD\MoreInfo.zip