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Subject: Re: To John Merlino

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:18:41 02/26/04

On February 26, 2004 at 14:01:25, Stephen Ham wrote:

>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

Well, I certainly didn't send it. :-) And I checked to make sure that your
e-mail that is listed in your profile is NOT in my address book, so I doubt I
have a virus. I don't have any virus-checking software, but if I get any reports
from others that they are getting the same type of e-mail from me, I'll be sure
to check out my computer thoroughly.

Was the e-mail sent from my AOL address? If so, then I've got a problem that I'm
going to have to track down. If not, then somebody else got my name from
somewhere and attached my name to this bogus e-mail.

jm

Re: To John Merlino Joakim Nilsson 00:32:39 02/27/04
Re: To John Merlino Jeroen van Dorp 17:06:24 02/26/04
- Re: To John Merlino Albert Silver 18:24:35 02/26/04
Re: To John Merlino Bob Durrett 15:13:43 02/26/04
- Re: To John Merlino Daniel Clausen 02:22:23 02/27/04
- Re: To John Merlino John Merlino 20:51:33 02/26/04
  - Re: To John Merlino Johan de Koning 16:12:01 02/27/04
    - Re: To John Merlino John Merlino 18:03:54 02/27/04
  - Re: To John Merlino Albert Silver 06:35:43 02/27/04
  - Re: To John Merlino martin fierz 05:59:44 02/27/04
- No Anti-virus? Albert Silver 16:18:31 02/26/04
  - Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? martin fierz 05:56:00 02/27/04
    - Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? Albert Silver 06:30:59 02/27/04
      - Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? Russell Reagan 08:51:47 02/27/04
        
        Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? Albert Silver 10:05:38 02/27/04
        
        Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? Russell Reagan 10:29:35 02/27/04
        
        Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? Dan Andersson 00:21:15 02/28/04
        
        Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? Jon Dart 08:00:37 02/29/04
        
        Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? Dan Andersson 10:33:55 03/01/04
        
        Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? Russell Reagan 01:19:33 02/28/04
        
        Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? Albert Silver 11:13:12 02/27/04
      - Re: No Anti-virus? how about a firewall?? martin fierz 07:08:01 02/27/04

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