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I just got the weirdest email

by timpears
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I just looked at my email and saw a new one with the subject line of 'Thank you for your payment' and as I had not made any payments I obviously became suspicious. The details of the email are below:
from: orders@locepal.com (this domain is not online)
order no 151471
download no 18811881
Thank you for payment
for downlod book plz click here
h**p://up.dreameer.com/files/gen/xjlLm_gfKF/here.zip

I didn't go there and am not about to. If some twit thinks I am going to download a zip file and click on some executable is crazy to say the least. I have got too many of these from UPS and FedEx about my lost or undeliverable packages to fall for this dumb trick.
#email #weirdest
  • Profile picture of the author jlxsolutions
    Nice another trojan to add to my collection.
    Windows users DO NOT click that link
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    • Profile picture of the author timpears
      Originally Posted by jlxsolutions View Post

      Nice another trojan to add to my collection.
      Windows users DO NOT click that link
      It wasn't supposed to be a link, but I made a mistake when I posted it. I edited the link out of it.
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      • Profile picture of the author jlxsolutions
        Originally Posted by timpears View Post

        It wasn't supposed to be a link, but I made a mistake when I posted it. I edited the link out of it.
        Well lol but Thanks for the addition to my collection was one i did not have yet
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        • Profile picture of the author timpears
          Originally Posted by jlxsolutions View Post

          Well lol but Thanks for the addition to my collection was one i did not have yet
          So glad I could help.
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          • Profile picture of the author jlxsolutions
            some collect stamps some coins some bugs i collect viruses trojans among other nasty lil buggers lol
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            • Profile picture of the author mattlaclear
              Originally Posted by jlxsolutions View Post

              some collect stamps some coins some bugs i collect viruses trojans among other nasty lil buggers lol
              That's because you click links you shouldn't be clicking. OP should of done due diligence to keep that from happening. These things are viral enough without spreading them ourselves on WF.
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    • Profile picture of the author howinfo
      　
      I have been getting similar emails with subject that make you very curious.

      The subject are:
      • Thank you for your payment
      • You have received payment
      • Warning
      • Important information inside
      • Cancellation noticed
      • You have won ...
      • Transfer completed
      • Account activation was successful
      • Congratulation
      And so on...

      These emails always lead you to some sort of link you need to click to find out more information which I have not done but the subject is designed so that it will at least make you open the email.
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      • Profile picture of the author mcmahanusa
        Originally Posted by howinfo View Post

        　
        I have been getting similar emails with subject that make you very curious.

        The subject are:
        • Thank you for your payment
        • You have received payment
        • Warning
        • Important information inside
        • Cancellation noticed
        • You have won ...
        • Transfer completed
        • Account activation was successful
        • Congratulation
        And so on...

        These emails always lead you to some sort of link you need to click to find out more information which I have not done but the subject is designed so that it will at least make you open the email.
        This is too funny. I think I got every one of these headings within the last week. We must be on the same mailing lists.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ron Kerr
        Originally Posted by howinfo View Post

        　
        I have been getting similar emails with subject that make you very curious.

        The subject are:
        • Thank you for your payment
        • You have received payment
        • Warning
        • Important information inside
        • Cancellation noticed
        • You have won ...
        • Transfer completed
        • Account activation was successful
        • Congratulation
        And so on...

        These emails always lead you to some sort of link you need to click to find out more information which I have not done but the subject is designed so that it will at least make you open the email.
        These emails were once coming only from scammers and were easily picked up by anti-spam software, but so-called legitimate marketers are now using some of these headings. The only way to get the message through to them that it is unacceptable is to unsubscribe, blacklist their email address and refuse to do any business with them.
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    LOL. Actually i've received a few similar emails by some 'gurus' which i will not name. But theirs were actually adswaps. It goes like..

    Thanks you for your payment.

    Amount due: $0.00

    Here's your download link to e-book
    on how to make money online.

    www. adswaps link .com that links to squeeze page.
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    • Profile picture of the author Aussie_Striker
      Originally Posted by forfun_cash View Post

      LOL. Actually i've received a few similar emails by some 'gurus' which i will not name. But theirs were actually adswaps. It goes like..

      Thanks you for your payment.

      Amount due: $0.00

      Here's your download link to e-book
      on how to make money online.

      www. adswaps link .com that links to squeeze page.
      Had quite a few of those recently. Must be working for them because they are becoing more frequent.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    I just got exactly the same email and have had a few of them. I don't click on any links in emails these days, they just get deleted.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    Yes I get quite a lot of money left to me in wills - it's just amazing how many people want to leave me money!

    I actually got a letter in the mail the other day stating that Mark Polomka and all his immediate family had died and since they could find no other immediate family and I have the same surname that all his money is being left to me.

    That was weird, I get the emails all the time but this was the first time I'd received an actual letter and the use of the name. I wonder how much success they have with this stuff, how many people actually fall for it and hand them over their bank details.
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    • Profile picture of the author davidjames42973
      I opened the email and downloaded it, but I didn't actually open the file. I have a MAC and this was a .exe file. Hope I didn't screw up. I bought a product this morning and thought at first that this was from the product. Oops...
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by davidjames42973 View Post

        I opened the email and downloaded it, but I didn't actually open the file. I have a MAC and this was a .exe file. Hope I didn't screw up. I bought a product this morning and thought at first that this was from the product. Oops...
        Never download these things. Just delete. Don't let curiosity get the better of you. Always make sure who is sending a file before opening it.
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      • Profile picture of the author jlxsolutions
        Originally Posted by davidjames42973 View Post

        I opened the email and downloaded it, but I didn't actually open the file. I have a MAC and this was a .exe file. Hope I didn't screw up. I bought a product this morning and thought at first that this was from the product. Oops...
        Nothing to worry about that one was a windows trojan only
        Most of these email scams/cracks are windows targeted usually only when they "know" you have a mac they send mac trojans
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  • Profile picture of the author grandunion5
    Hi all
    Just got the same weirdest email from locepal.com What I don't like is that they have my full name!!! I wonder how this is possible. Did you guys also have this email addressed personally?
    Marc
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  • Profile picture of the author lottoguru
    Just had the same email in fact I had two sent a couple of mins appart.
    Cheers for the heads up
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  • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
    I've had a rash of 'Thank You For Your Payment' e-mails recently too. Over the last week, 'Your Order Is Complete' has been even more popular. I don't even open any of them. I'd just assumed that some self-appointed 'guru' somewhere has been telling people that it's the kind of subject line that gets attention and puts money in the bank. Maybe it does, but not mine. I'd swear that it would only take one of these 'leaders' to say that 'Your Knickers Are On Fire' is a profit-pulling subject line and there would be enough lemmings believing him to have my inbox aglow with blazing gussets the following week.

    Maybe it's just me, but I stopped seeing these things as weird ages ago. 'Original' is becoming much more unusual though.
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  • Profile picture of the author aandersen
    just click that little "report spam" button in your email inbox
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  • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
    I've been getting Amazon.com spoof emails like that. Digital downloadable products. Boy, I really hate these spammers!

    TomG.
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  • Profile picture of the author michael_dans
    I think that these people have no other work, there are still some emails that are in my inbox related to similar things and matters. Some of them says about winning the lottery also, I don't know how to get rid of these spammers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Schwenk
    Haha... of all places to link back to.

    I googled "locepal.com ?" and this was the first link to show up.

    But yeah - I received the exact same e-mail with a slightly different subject link a little bit after midnight.

    I'd say that it's amazing people still think others will fall for this. However, the continued use just goes to show that many people indeed do.

    Kind of like ridiculous warning labels. You know there was more than likely some very unhappy person that wrote those companies with precisely that issue.

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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    Looks to me like a virus of some sort.

    It can also mean that someone is trying to get people to open his or hers product and click on their affiliate links in their file.

    I would delete it and move on.

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  • Profile picture of the author Regional Warrior
    Originally Posted by timpears View Post

    I just looked at my email and saw a new one with the subject line of 'Thank you for your payment' and as I had not made any payments I obviously became suspicious. The details of the email are below:
    from: orders@locepal.com (this domain is not online)
    order no 151471
    download no 18811881
    Thank you for payment
    for downlod book plz click here
    h**p://up.dreameer.com/files/gen/xjlLm_gfKF/here.zip

    I didn't go there and am not about to. If some twit thinks I am going to download a zip file and click on some executable is crazy to say the least. I have got too many of these from UPS and FedEx about my lost or undeliverable packages to fall for this dumb trick.
    I feel left out I never get ones like this!maybe I am on the wrong lists
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  • Profile picture of the author Halli
    I really like it when I get an email saying that some foreign family member died and that I am the only one mentioned in the will or something like that.And that family member had my last name also.Which is funny to me because here in my country we don't use last names.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aussie_Striker
    Damn, this seoquake something is stuffed up with it, don't know how it managed to insert itself on my post
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  • Profile picture of the author addykho
    It seems like all sort of tricks being thought of in order to make money online
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  • Profile picture of the author ShadowCaster
    I received 2 similar e-mails in past week.. Deleted them instantly, because i didn't want to get some nasty virus
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  • Profile picture of the author humbledmarket
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    Yeh I've received plenty of the similar emails generally I just ignore them if I don't remember making a payment.
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    • Profile picture of the author Vogin
      I always hit "reply" to such emails and I explain to the phisher/hacker why his attempt is so poor and what should he do with his miserable life...
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  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    Yup, that is a trojan virus.

    Originally Posted by timpears View Post

    I just looked at my email and saw a new one with the subject line of 'Thank you for your payment' and as I had not made any payments I obviously became suspicious. The details of the email are below:
    from: orders@locepal.com (this domain is not online)
    order no 151471
    download no 18811881
    Thank you for payment
    for downlod book plz click here
    h**p://up.dreameer.com/files/gen/xjlLm_gfKF/here.zip

    I didn't go there and am not about to. If some twit thinks I am going to download a zip file and click on some executable is crazy to say the least. I have got too many of these from UPS and FedEx about my lost or undeliverable packages to fall for this dumb trick.
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    But anyways, these SUBJECTS have high open rate
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  • Profile picture of the author David McKee
    In case you are wondering what happens if you do click the link, here is one of the awesome little programs you will get.

    AVSecuritySuite

    This has to be one of the most insidious virus trojans I have seen in awhile as it attempts to mimic legitimate virus protection programs, while at the same time continuously sending your browser to porn web-sites. It also does one other very nasty thing: It disables programs like "Process Explorer", the command line box, the task box, and the regedit so you cannot remove this beast. It also removes your ability to use your browser to go to sites to download fixes!

    What do you do if you got this?

    You shut your computer down and reboot it in safe mode plus network, then go online and download a program called "    combofix" which will allow you to remove this little bugger.

    You will be frustrated and you will spend a good hour or two - the problem is, Norton and MaCafee do not detect this (as of last month when I removed it from a friends computer).

    What you should do is download combofix now and have it ready, then you can just use it if you happen to get one of these sorts of viruses that pose as legitimate software.

    combofix.org is where you can get it.

    -DTM.
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    • Profile picture of the author kyal
      my dad just got this exact e-mail but it was from paypal.....should he phone up and check he hasnt been hacked or is it the people......and im just lucky i had nortons otherwise id be swimming in trojans
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      • Profile picture of the author mnonline
        Originally Posted by kyal View Post

        my dad just got this exact e-mail but it was from paypal.....should he phone up and check he hasnt been hacked or is it the people......and im just lucky i had nortons otherwise id be swimming in trojans
        Sometimes i got hacked even though i have anti-virus on. Happened twice and those were critical. One time i had to reset my whole comp to it original. The second time, luckily i had some knowledge how to deal with these bad software. I was able to disable and uninstall it.
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  • Profile picture of the author mnonline
    It's just some killer headline texts. I rather see a PDF file than an exe. file.

    PDF files are legitimate files. Exe. files are more likely to manipulate your comp since it is free source and from unknown.
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    • Profile picture of the author bretski
      Originally Posted by mnonline View Post

      It's just some killer headline texts. I rather see a PDF file than an exe. file.

      PDF files are legitimate files. Exe. files are more likely to manipulate your comp since it is free source and from unknown.
      We've actually been getting a lot of users here at work who are getting emails that look like they're coming from eFax. The attachment is a zip file and when the user opens it the icon LOOKS like a pdf but it has an exe extension. Just be aware that this is going around also....just because the icon looks like a pdf doesn't mean it's a pdf...check that extension...
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      • Profile picture of the author cmccann79
        been getting these lately as well.i never open them just delete them
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      • Profile picture of the author Aussie_Al
        As obvious to most of us that these are scams its sad how many folks still get taken in by these

        I saw a documentary on catching online "scam" predators and some people really do get taken for a ride by these creeps

        That said has anybody seen the HBO comedy "Flight of the Conchords"?
        Their hapless manager uses their band fund to give a loan to a prince from Nigeria , they tell him its a scam and he says something like "The Internet is one of the most trusted sources in the whole world these days why would anyone scam me" etc etc
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  • Profile picture of the author Geoff101
    These days I don't click on any links in emails. They are loaded with phissing scams, Trojans and other bad stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author snapcontent
    what can we expect next? Spammers to notice 'big' launches, and clone the launch email, substituting a dodgy link?
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  • Profile picture of the author J42
    I can imagine alot of people will fall for that one.
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  • Profile picture of the author xMarkPro
    Yep, that would be a virus alright. Maybe install some anti-virus protection that scans you're incoming e-mail. Or simply use Gmail.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dedew
    Yeah when you get e-mails like this and you know you didn't order it, it's best to just leave it. Hate when people try to put viruses out like this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ephrils
    I've been getting a lot of these types of emails recently. I checked one, then just deleted any others that show up. These are the types of spammers I wish we could know about as much as they know about us as we do about them. Traceable IPS, maybe a nice Google Maps graphic on the trace...

    I wonder if they'd be so quick to send this crap out then.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jake Gray
    If you think it's suspicious, don't click it.

    You need commonsense on the internet.
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