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Archae

(46,314 posts) Thu Jun 21, 2012, 09:44 PM Jun 2012

Ok, I got an e-mail from "Vimeo."

The Internet video service.

Guy is complimenting me on a video I have there.
(Except I don't remember having any there.)

So I click on the Vimeo link...

*BOOM!*

My anti-virus nails a mail-order pharmacy trying to take over my browser.
Blocked, Stopped, Nuked, etc.

Anyone else get anything like this?

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Ok, I got an e-mail from "Vimeo." (Original Post) Archae Jun 2012 OP

I get quite a few pretending to be from Youtube. Ptah Jun 2012 #1

Get spam like that all the time MicaelS Jun 2012 #2

Suddenly I get them constantly. nolabear Jun 2012 #3

Do this before opening another one like that whistler162 Jun 2012 #4

Ptah

(33,024 posts)

1. I get quite a few pretending to be from Youtube.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Jun 21, 2012, 09:48 PM

Jun 2012

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)

2. Get spam like that all the time

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Jun 21, 2012, 09:54 PM

Jun 2012

"Your YouTube video has been rejected." Except I have never uploaded any video, to any service, any where, ever.

nolabear

(41,959 posts)

3. Suddenly I get them constantly.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Jun 21, 2012, 11:08 PM

Jun 2012

Fake FB friend requests. YouTubes I never posted. Orders I never placed. Amazon thingies. I never open anything I don't know and figure if it's real and important they'll find me somehow.

But it pisses me off.

whistler162

(11,155 posts)

4. Do this before opening another one like that

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 11:20 AM

Jun 2012

1 - Raise your hand, either will do
2 - Pull it away from your body
3 - Take careful aim at the back of your head
4 - With all your might move your hand to connect to the back of your head
5 - Repeat until correlation between opening this type of emails and a painful slap works

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