did anyone get a suspecious email from JediJeffrey(Jeffrey Kindall) on Ebay?

[sparrowfan]

I got this weird email from Jeffrey Kindall aka jedijeffrey on ebay

with subject line: FW:Fw Bryus Alert!
no attachments, no pictures,
just a bunch of badly spelled english words about a mexican hacker
telling you to delete everything in your hard drive


anyone?
korbath? :confused

 

[Lan-Ed-Tul]

nope i didnt, i know JJ and have emailed and talked with him and bought a brace off him a ways back. that doesnt sound like JJ to me at all.

its prolly a email bomb, virus, etc......

 

[sparrowfan]

nope i didnt, i know JJ and have emailed and talked with him and bought a brace off him a ways back. that doesnt sound like JJ to me at all.

its prolly a email bomb, virus, etc......

yeah it doesn't seem like hes that kinda person, but it shows that it was sent from his email.
odd, maybe he has a virus?
i wonder if he knows that hes sending others these emails.

 

[BrianTheSith]

He's a member of the Alpine Garrison, aside from ebay, you could contact him there.

 

[Lan-Ed-Tul]

i doubt very seriously it come from him.

what alot of spyware does, is catch a email addy, once that email addy has been caught, it then sends out the virus in emails to all over via the email addy it captured. seen it happen a thousand times. with me, i run like 3 different spyware/adware prgs, along with NIS2007 and i never get anything more than a track cookie.

im betting he opened a email, or went to a site that was set to capture all info when someone stupidly wanders onto it. it snagged his email addy, and maliciously is sending out bad stuff using his email as the originator, to get him into trouble.

like i said, i have seen this myself with a few friends of mine, so i know it happens. im betting this is the case here.

 

[BlindSquirrel]

I've actually gotten junk email, allegedly sent from myself!! Must be the Ambien.

 

[jedi5150]

I too know Jeff personally. In addition, I'm an I.T. professional. What you've described is without-a-doubt the results of an email/spam virus. I'll have to shoot Jeff an email and let him know.
Also, you should triple-check your own machine for virus infections since you opened the email.


*EDIT* Also.... many times these emails don't even come from the computer of the person it says it's from. It will infect someone's computer, pull random addresses from their address book, and email back out as that person. So it could have come from anyone who has Jeff in their address book.

-Doug

 

[SaberFreak]

What Doug said.

Its call Spoof mail.

Jeff's system must have been compromised and the virus/worm is forwarding a pre-assigned email/text to everyone in Jeff's contact list, or any email address it can find on Jeff's computer, even in text files or temp folders. It could also be programed to send a copy of it's own code to the emails.

Jeff need to clean up his PC pronto. Those of you who receive such an email would be wise to sweep your PC with every anti-virus, anti-spyware/malware software you can get your hands on. One software usually don't catch them all.

 

[Lan-Ed-Tul]

yeah, im pretty conscious of this stuff myself. i run spywareblaster, spybot search and destroy, adaware SE, and NIS 2007.

 

[Korbanth]

yeah, I got the email too!