FAO Tocino

I have just received an email from you, as one of a distribution list.

I have deleted it without opening. You might want to check, but it appears that your account may have been compromised.

If you acknowledge receipt of this message soonest, I will delete it. If I am not still on line perhaps one of the admins would do so.

Thank you.

28 thoughts on “FAO Tocino”

  1. I have just received an email that would suggest that other “Charioteer” accounts have been compromised.

  4. Thank you. I have 13 emails from all over the place. Don!t know what has happened and I haven’t opened any of them. Some advice from Bearsy would be of help.

  8. I have two e-mails purporting to be from Bearsy – they are not. They are from an address that is similar, but not the same as his.

    Please check the address of the sender carefully before you panic!

  11. I have received two from Toc, same as you Araminta, both had warnings with them that they should not be opened, so I have deleted without opening.

  12. I have also had two emails from Pseu, using her real name, it was to a list of people she communicates here on wordpress, not all on the chariot, but her own site. It was from the Canadian Healthcare, which, if you don’t know, is a dangerous site to open. When I clicked on Pseu’s email, McAfee, and Virgin sprang into action with warming boxes, so I deleted without opening.

    Please note and Remember, Pseu’s email came to me with a subject title ‘How to be safe on the Internet’….so if you get one, DON’T OPEN IT. I hope Pseu sees your blog Araminta.

    NEVER open anything from Canadian Healthcare, there is never anything in the subject box, to indicate its from them, you only see it when you open it. As I’m typing, an urgent box to open is on the side of my screen from McAfee that I have been attacked with two rogue emails, I will look when I’ve posted this comment.
    Val

  13. The warning box from McAfee, was to tell me they had removed the contents of the compromising emails, and said to reboot, so I am.

  14. Apologies to anyone who has had that email from me. I had a warning of it through another friend using my other email address. He had a viagra ad via my yahoo account.
    Techie is still asleep but I’ll ask if there’s anything to do

  17. Yup me too.

    I sent a reply to the e-mail asking TOC what it was about. And received an answer which appears to be from TOC.

    Was it you chuim?

    It would seem one of the toddlers has slipped his pen over on the dark side.

  18. I don’t know much about these things but changing your password and doing a virus check on your hard drive seem to be sensible precautions.

  20. Ferret,

    The reply is from me but not the original. These emails only showed up on my iPad. On my Mac, they went directly into Spam.

  21. Thanks Val.

    I don’t remember what the link was, I simply deleted it too, as per the instructions and the warning I received.

  23. Since this problem seems to be affecting more than one of us here, I think it might be more sensible to leave this post, rather than delete it.

    It is my considered opinion, although I’m no expert, that is due to something known as a Spambot. It is unlikely to be a WordPress or a “Chariot” problem.

  24. I have recieved two emails from ‘Bearsy Australia’ addressed to a private mail address which I have never used here but which I used at MyT some time ago.

    I infer that the sender hails from the dark side.

  25. Janus,

    This is the nature of the spambot.

    It is highly likely one of us was an unsuspecting recipient of a virus (probably from a friend), it then replicated itself using the hapless victims address book. The mail I got from TOC for example was group sent and I could see everyone in his Gmail contacts list. I have had previous Gmail communication with the fellow so am not surprised to be on that list. Were I to have opened the link, then everyone in my list would get a copy.

    Guess what, there are a fair few charioteers in my contact list. Ergo it suddenly looks like we are being specifically targeted when it is simply a piece of software, doing what it does.

    Eventually I assume, the creator of the bot gets a list of valid e-mail addresses which he/she can sell to mailing companies and spammers at a price.

  26. “The mail I got from TOC for example was group sent and I could see everyone in his Gmail contacts list.”

    Ferret,

    Can you mail me that list please.

  28. Furry.

    Your #25.

    Yes, precisely. I don’t know much about Spambots at all, but I think you are more than likely right.

    I posted this, rather late at night, as a courtesy to a fellow member of this site to alert him to a potential problem with his email account, without much thought that it would affect more members of this site, and beyond.

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