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@diver saidI have received, but never fallen for, similar traps. The really nasty ones claim they control your on-board video camera (I don't have one) and record you while you 'pursue the object of your peculiar passion' -- and if you don't transfer x-many bitcoins immediately, the video will be posted to all your relatives (the spammer also claims to have access to your address-book). I bounce these, which generates an error message: "email address unknown" returned to the sender.
Anyone here ever fallen for emails like this, or know anyone who has?
My sister fell for the email which claims to come from Microsoft, that your computer has been compromised, but if you download their 'patch' the problem will be fixed. Needlesstosay, the 'patch' gives the hackers full remote access to your system. Congratulations, you've been hacked.
Another common one is to receive an email from someone you do actually know, claiming their system has been jacked (it has!), and they desperately need you to transfer money to help them restore the account or get them out of jail in some sub-Saharan land where they are, apparently, vacationing. Phone them to make sure, before falling for this one.
@The-only-Mr-T saidOh, they got their money back -- they marked up the popcorn and the Dr. Pepper when they saw you coming.
It worked for me, a years free cinema pass I won. You should give it a try again.
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@diver saidi do
Anyone here ever fallen for emails like this, or know anyone who has?
redacted, before she passed, had the annoying habit of opening every dang email ever sent to her
then she'd call me and tell me her computer was running slow
then she'd pass me that chain email telling me how ole bill clinton got his lollipop slapped
gawd help me, they's family
@diver said"Bouncing" an email is a service which some apps, such as MailWasherPro, offer. It allows me to see inbound emails on the server, before downloading them to my end device and to mark some for deletion (which means they simply disappear, before they ever get to my end device), or bounce, which means my server deletes them and sends an error message back to the sender that no such email address (@diver or whatever) exists. The purpose of this is to trigger the bot which sent the message to delete my email address from its data base. There is no guarantee that the bot will do this, of course, but it makes sense for bot programmers to configure this, because there is no profit in wasting memory on non-existent addresses. Hope this helps.
Please explain “bounced” in this scenario to a novice ?
Thanks