blackmail update

[kengr]

Would you believe that I got a *second* email with a different From: name (but the same email address)?

The wording of the email was done a bit better, and the Bitcoin address was different. Still wanted the $1100 though.

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[stickmaker]

My former place of employment had a good IT section. They made sure we all recognized the signs of invalid e-mail messages

One day, everyone in the Transportation Cabinet got a message with all the warning signs. It was to too many people. It was from someone we didn't recognize (though it had a state government ID, which we figured was spoofed). It had a vague subject. There was nothing in the body, but there _was_ an attachment with a vague name.

Turns out it was from an upper government official who was outraged that most people deleted his *very important* message unread.

[kengr]

If it was "very important" then he should have had someone who knew what the were doing compose and format it.

I might open something like that, but only because my email program is set up in such a way that I'd have to *deliberately do *several* dumb things to get an infection from an email.

For starters, it doesn't display HTML or load remote graphics unless I *tell* it to. Those are two *seperate* operations, btw.

I can "view" attachments as a list of names, file sizes and types.

I can chose to open them individually or to save them as files individually.

And at *that* point, my AV program will scan them. And do it again if I chose to open them.

I used to collect viruses/malware that came attached to emails. Just to see how many different kinds I could collect.