I just received the following e-mail. In the message I received the words “click here” is a link. But I noticed that the link is to an FTP site, and not a web page. It was going to download an “.exe” file. That means a program.
You have received a postcard !
Hello friend !
You have just received a postcard from someone who cares about you!
This is a part of the message:
“Hy there! It has been a long time since I haven´t heared about you!
I´ve just found out about this service from Claire, a friend of mine who also told me that…”
If you´d like to see the rest of the message click here to receive your animated postcard!
If you receive something like this DO NOT CLICK! It will run a program on your computer.
My Hotmail accounts have been full of that, but it looked too bogus — almost everyone I know is literate, so crappy spelling is a tipoff.
Thanks for the warning Dave! We’ve just had a very effective anti-virus system installed on our computer and that would hopefully put this email into the ‘fraudulent’ mail folder but then one never knows ..
Who in their right mind would open something like that in the first place? Is Engrish that attractive that people would risk a virus?