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tonyburton / Moderator

Oct 14, 2009, 11:13 AM

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WARNING: Spam e-mail purporting to come from MexConnect.com

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Zillions of e-mails looking something like the following:

From: "alert@mexconnect.com" <alert@mexconnect.com>
To: <xxx@mexconnect.com>
Sent: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:52:39 +0100
Subject: A new settings file for the xxxr@mexconnect.com mailbox has just been released

have been hitting in-boxes.

IMPORTANT: These messages are NOT, repeat NOT, from MexConnect, but appear to originate somewhere in Eastern Europe (or maybe Asia, or maybe...?)

You may safely ignore and delete these messages - the from address (alert@mexconnect) is not a valid e-mail for any of our systems.

Sorry for having to interrupt normal forum traffic with this posting; please get back to regular posts, and ENJOY!
Tony/David

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colibri1

Nov 7, 2009, 3:14 AM

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Re: [tonyburton] WARNING: Spam e-mail purporting to come from MexConnect.com

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I just got one that said it was from MexConnect.com-Forums and the subject line was MexConnect.com-Forums Reply to your Post

I opened it but didn't click on the link when I didn't recognize the thread title.
Then I went into the forum search to look for the user-name's posts...there were none. Pretty un-nerving.

colibri1

Nov 7, 2009, 7:55 AM

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Re: [colibri1] WARNING: Spam e-mail purporting to come from MexConnect.com

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P. S. The afore mentioned SPAM attacked my yahoo inbox.

colibri1

Nov 10, 2009, 1:14 PM

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Re: [colibri1] WARNING: Spam e-mail purporting to come from MexConnect.com

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I was suspicious of this message because it was a reply to a post I never made and the user name is very similar to my real name. The thread in fact, does not exist. However, after I spammed it, yahoo began spamming all my message reply notices. Since I had them all lined up together in the spam file, true and suspect, I could compare them...turns out they were of the same origin. So after searching for the poster by going alphabetically instead of using the search feature, I FOUND HER! She only posted once...on the date in question...I guess she deleted it. I'm relieved to know that MexConnect is NOT being body-snatched!!! WHEW!!!

DavidMcL / Moderator

Nov 16, 2009, 3:55 PM

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Re: [tonyburton] WARNING: Spam e-mail purporting to come from MexConnect.com - Again

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This time the message reads as follows:

From: "info@mexconnect.com" <info@mexconnect.com>
To: <xxxx@mexconnect.com>
Subject: your mailbox has been deactivated
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:49:45 -0300

We are contacting you in regards to an unusual activity that was identified in your mailbox. As a result, your mailbox has been deactivated. To restore your mailbox, you are required to extract and run the attached mailbox utility.

Best regards, mexconnect.com technical support.

THIS IS A SPAM messge - please ignore.
David McL
WebJefe