Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 11:01:25 02/26/04
Dear John, I just received the following email, with attachment, from John Merlino. Since you're the only John Merlino whom I know, I thought I'd better post this to you. Thanks for your registration. ( We say Sorry again, the first mail was delivered to an unknown mail address. This was a bug in our mailing system! ) The amount of 239.- USD was deducted by your credit card. Welcome, you can now visit more than 1200 very very hot web pages! Your registration, pages and passwords are in the attachment. enjoy His email address is: John.Merlino@smtp02.fields.gol.com and he sent this to my work address, which is odd. That John Merlino didn't leave a name after writing "enjoy." I don't recall trying to register anywhere and I certainly don't recall authorizing any debit to my credit card for $239. The mention of "hot web pages" sounds like porno. You're not in that business now, are you, John? ;-) Since there's an attachment, this looks like a virus/worm. I'm guessing that it's a mere coincidence that the sender's name is the same as yours. I plan to delete the email after you confirm that you didn't send it. Thanks in advance, John. All the very best, Stephen Ham
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