# Ugh... A virus email that managed to confuse me...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-a-virus-email-that-managed-to-confuse-me/232509>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 4, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-a-virus-email-that-managed-to-confuse-me/232509 "2004-03-04T14:36:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-a-virus-email-that-managed-to-confuse-me/232509/21 "2004-03-05T04:16:38Z")

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> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> Yep. Got one, too.
> 
> It’s funny because I _am_ “[administration@mydomain.com](mailto:administration@mydomain.com)”. I yam!

The same thing happened to me. I had a discussion with myself and decided it was shit.

The one that made me laugh said that my credit card was going to be billed with kiddie porn. Apparently I had a subscription and three tapes a month would show up at my home…unless of course, I gave them my credit card info and social security number so they could cancel it. The virus was attached.

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**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-a-virus-email-that-managed-to-confuse-me/232509/22 "2004-03-05T05:17:44Z")

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I got one that just said something like:

this one is for you  
your password is “23834”

no from or why or anything.

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**Author:** ![spudzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@spudzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spudzilla)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-a-virus-email-that-managed-to-confuse-me/232509/23 "2004-03-05T07:01:12Z")

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> [@1920s Style Death Ray](#):
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> Yes and I believe it’s possible to set windows up so that the file extensions aren’t displayed. In that case the above file would look like this:
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> funny.jpg

Unless I’m mistaken, the default setting in Windows XP Home is to \*\*not \*\*show the file extensions. You have to change the setting yourself to un-hide them.

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**Author:** ![Wildcatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@Wildcatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildcatz)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-a-virus-email-that-managed-to-confuse-me/232509/24 "2004-03-06T01:50:34Z")

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> [@Windwalker](#):
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> Oh, and I forgot to mention that it was from “[support@yahoo.com](mailto:support@yahoo.com)”, which is about ten thousand times more convincing than the typical “[Alicia@hotchicks.cum.org](mailto:Alicia@hotchicks.cum.org)”. I know the From line email address can be fudged quite easily, but they sure got me, yer darn tootin’!
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> Blargh!

the mail was from [support@myrealbox.com](mailto:support@myrealbox.com) and read thusly:

> [@](#):
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> Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next…yadda yadda yadda

luckily, I scan EVERYTHING so when it came up as having a virus I forwarded the mail to the _real_ support.

What a bunch of assmunches. :mad:

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