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Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam | sober.s, sober.p, sober.o, etc. worm

Aisha Maniar — Fri, 06 May 2005 15:51:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam
Poster: Aisha Maniar
Post title: sober.s, sober.p, sober.o, etc. worm

I'm not the first to mention this new worm that's making the rounds as an email attachment ( [url removed] ) but it may be the cause of your woes. I've received it as an attachment a few times to familiar-looking email addresses. The following gives good information about it and it is definitely one to look out for at the moment:
[url removed] @mm.html

Have a good weekend,
Aisha

Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam | these commonly contain viruses as well

davidgreen — Fri, 06 May 2005 14:58:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam
Poster: davidgreen
Post title: these commonly contain viruses as well

I get them from time to time...the emails, not the viruses

Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam | I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Trudy Peters — Fri, 06 May 2005 13:02:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam
Poster: Trudy Peters
Post title: I'm glad I'm not the only one!

I, too, have received dozens of these over the past week or so. (None today so far. Maybe it has stopped.) They are all of identical size (73K), all have attachments and are from addresses that are familiar (ProZ, ATA, etc.) but with an extra word added.

Trudy

Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam | It's also possible that someone spoofed your e-mail address

Siobhán Fulton — Fri, 06 May 2005 12:43:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam
Poster: Siobhán Fulton
Post title: It's also possible that someone spoofed your e-mail address

I get these messages from time to time. Some spammer was using my e-mail address as a return address, and undeliverable mail was returned to me. I even once got spam with my own e-mail address as the return address.

Eventually this will stop, for a while at least.
Kevin

Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam | Old Trick

tectranslate ITS GmbH — Fri, 06 May 2005 11:49:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam
Poster: tectranslate ITS GmbH
Post title: Old Trick

Yeah, that one's old. We've been getting hundreds of these over the last year or so.

Regards,
Benjamin

Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam

Stephanie Wloch — Fri, 06 May 2005 11:26:00 +0000

Forum: Safe computing
Topic: Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam
Poster: Stephanie Wloch

Maybe my headline is not correct.

But lately I've got suspicious mails for the first time.
My provider has very efficient spam+virusfilters. And only now and then I found something obviously spammy in the special spambox.

Last days I receive suspicious mails
with subjects that almost make you click automatically like
- Delivery_failure_notice
- Faulty_mail delivery
- Mail delivery_failed
- Mail Error

I can read the mail safely because of webmail
and of course do not download anything suspicious.
But I did not know that they use these tricky subjects.