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Framar

Framar

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In the last two days I have received over 70 identical emails from one of my friends.

The first two dozen came at the same time, then a dozen more a few minutes later and three dozen today.

I have written back to her first as a reply and today as a new email that something is obviously wrong at her end - but of course I haven't heard from her because it sounds like something has seized her computer?

I think I am gonna have to break down and phone her. :party:

The email is entitled "How to Drive a New York City Taxi Driver Crazy" and it is a wmv file. I have deleted and erased all of them without opening any of them.

Whole thing seems odd to me.......

Anyone ever heard of this before?
 
Sounds like a virus to me.

(Said the girl who knows next to nothing).

Or someone who got into her account and
is sending as if from it. On my regular e-mail,
recipients see it as from my nickname, rather
than the e-mail address. But someone has started
sending me spam, supposedly from my address,
selling Canadian Viagra. I changed my password,
so we'll see if it gets any better. I'm guessing
no.

I think you have the right idea in calling her.
 
Definitely sounds like a virus. The wmv file probably contains malicious code. It may, however, not even be on her computer. Some viruses will get into a computer and us email addresses they find in that computers email program as the sending address, thus disguising where they are coming from. It may be on one of her friend's computers.

Hopefully someone with more knowledge will elaborate on this.
 
I have been getting viagra emails from two male friends. I emailed them back telling them to quit sending them to me. Im a female for "G" sakes!!! They didnt send them to me.

Got another one last week from a one time customer about two years ago.

Dont know what's going on, but anybody got any suggestions???
 
I was getting multiple emails (6 or 8 of the same one ) and it ended up it was my computer had a problem of some kind that my computer guru fixed ( a virus I think )...
 
Run a scan with the free tool at www.malwarebytes.org, just in case.

Chances are either you or a friend is infected, who has you in their contacts list. When this happens, the whole contact list is usually harvested. The infection then sends itself out with random to and from names in the emails, so it is harder to identify the source.

If you want, you can look at the invisible HEADERS in the email, to find the IP address of the source computer. This way youll know the likely city/state/country of origin. If you have a friend in that place, you can then direct them to scan their computer with the above tool.

Best regards
Mike
 
Framar said:
The email is entitled "How to Drive a New York City Taxi Driver Crazy" and it is a wmv file.
Click to expand...

It should have been titled "How to drive a Framer Crazy". Insert profession and forward to enemies...lol.... j/k
 
My friend finally was able to contact me - she was able to straighten out the mess with tech support from her Internet provider. Amazing!
 
Turns out this is how she described her problem - never heard of any such thing. Weird, eh?

"What happened had to do with Outlook and sending photos... the file was TOO big so the program broke it up into parts which didn't work anyway..THEN it broke even small emails into parts!! I was sure this was the problem but the Verizon guy checked everything else first! Turns out it was the problem..BUT I didn't know how to fix it!"

The email she had sent me was a video clip - I never actually opened any of them so maybe over two or three days her program managed to slice it and dice it and send it out in dozens of pieces?
 
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