WARNING: False survey claiming to be from Trend Micro going around

[Red_Rattler]

I just got sent an email claiming to be from the anti-virus company called Trend Micro. After knowing I did not do what the email said I did in the email's subject title, I found Trend Micro's contact number, and it is has been confirmed that it is a fake,a dn naturally just trying to get your details.

The email address also had extra letters, but tried to trick people into thinking it was from Trend Micro's domain name.

As usual, do what you should with these emails.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Never open questionable E-Mails, or take surveys of any kind

Why would anyone respond, or even open up a questionable E-Mail anyway ? If it is from an unknown sender, everyone should delete, or mark as Spam, any unknown E-Mails. And surveys even from your own Antivirus provider ie: Norton...etc...your own Bank or Credit Card Company, Kalmbach-Model RR/Trainz magizine, Radio Shack, Sears... should be ignored and deleted, or marked as Spam, without even opening the E-Mail. If an E-Mail is too good to be true or promises something, it is most probably Spam or a Scam.

By taking part in any survey, you are not going to get one red cent...but you will pick up cookies, adware, malware, spyware, virus...etc...and the people make money selling your E-Mail address to hundereds of Spammers, who inturn sell it to hundereds of other Spammers.

 

[RRSignal]

What's even worse is I've started to notice companies advertising on TV, as to try to give themselves some legitimacy. So called "survey" companies, companies (mostly on G4 TV) selling crapware that claims to "speed up your computer", etc. It's gonna get worse as they turn to more desperate attempts to seem legitimate.

I remember a couple years ago spammers - I think Russian mafia, but not 100% sure - actively recruiting people with excellent spelling and grammar skills, because they realized that even people with poor linguistic skills could often recognize spams and scams. I see more and more that this tactic has paid off; you can no longer rely on misspellings or crappy grammar as a sign of a scam artist.

 

[picture]

Why would anyone respond, or even open up a questionable E-Mail anyway ? .

It just so happens that alot people do it because they are uninformed/ don't know enough about technoloy that they open any email/popup they see. Most of us are experianced with computers enough that we know fake from real. I know some one who works at my church almost gave away the church bank account number and all the info they(hackers) would have needed to steal all our money until my Grandpa(Church treasurer) stopped it from happening.

This is also the same person who has literally screwed up the church office computer so many times that my Grandpa has refused to fix it anymore. He just bought a prebuilt one(this was the first in a very long time for him as he only builds his own) just for the church and said, "If this one gets screwed up, I don't care, they can fix it themselves."

 

[cascaderailroad]

There is a sucker born every minute

Off Topic: But why would anyone put their $1000's Unwanted Old Gold Jewelry into a shipping mailing bag, and trust that the reciever would weigh it properly, and not short change them with pennies on the dollar, or not even send cash money for their gold they nievly & trustingly sent.

Do not buy into John Treudeau, who sells books on how to get rich quick, scam. He has done at least one term in prison for fraud, and his cellmate and him came up with the idea for the scam while in prison to plot when they got released.

Oh man ... I have heard of dozens and dozens of scams, too lengthly to list !

 

[Red_Rattler]

I didn't open it, if that's what some are trying to say. I used Mailwasher first, then used the properties.

I put it to let others know.

At cascadesrailroad, how come everyone of your posts seem to go off the screen (unless I reduce it so that the text is almost unreadable)?