Is this just spam?

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Offbreed

I'm getting a bunch of variations on "Top News" on my computer at work.
Company policy is that all email be text. The body is blank. Looks like
the whole email is the attachment.

I have no control over the security so I'm not about to take any
chances investigating.

Is this the normal crap, or some sort of virus e-mail?
 
On that special day, Offbreed, ([email protected]) said...
Is this the normal crap, or some sort of virus e-mail?
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I keep getting similar mails, where the text is all put into a picture.
Normally, it is stock pump and dump.


Gabriele Neukam

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news said:
Wait for the emails looking official and asking for pwd verification for
ebay etc, and then wait for fraud.
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I get those all the time on this account, which I do not use for
anything but usenet.

A couple looked so realistic and plausible that I signed in on e-bay
using one of my other accounts and searched for this one to see if
someone had been using it for e-bay.
 
Wait for the emails looking official and asking for pwd verification for
ebay etc, and then wait for fraud.

"We are updating our recs, just verify and agree to our new TC's ...." A lot
come from Africa

Then we have ..

"I saw your store and want to buy 70 .... " No money comes, and goods go.

I got a lot, especially from people disguised as the bank.
 
Gabriele Neukam said:
On that special day, Offbreed, ([email protected]) said...


Yuppers. I don't know the exact english term, as I am from Germany.
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I don't either as I am from Canada, lol.

Are you referring to "hyping" up a stock and then selling it off quickly
once it rises?? If so, I am not sure what that is called, but I think it is
slightly against the law. I am not 'into' the stock market at all, which is
surely obvious, lol.

Heather
 
On that special day, Heather, ([email protected]) said...
Are you referring to "hyping" up a stock and then selling it off quickly
once it rises??
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Exactly. I have been receiving them all November and today there was
another one. It seems someone has started this business not too long
ago.

If you goolge for the four letter stock name codes, you'll find several
pages where they are hyped, each looking different and telling they are
at (insert price), which might be well above the one given in the spam.
Which means, these shares are bouncing like a basket ball. And of
course you're always the sorry guy, who did bet onto the wrong
direction.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
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