OT. BT

[harryagain]

Anybody else with BT internet getting loads of spam e-mails inviting them to click on a link to fix problems they don't have? Or changes they don't need/want to make? etc.

[John Williamson]

Yup. The odd one or two are even getting through the BT spam filter.

[harryagain]

I get around two a day.

[bert]

In message , harryagain writes

Not seeing any. Generally I find the BT spam filters too aggressive and I regularly have to check the Spam box for genuine e-mails

[Brian Gaff]

Be warned about the scrambling malware that asks for money to decrypt your drive if you open certain attaches.

Brian

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not recently. I suspect spamhaus has found the relays by now.

I did get one yestarday inviting ne toi duscuss te parcelt shuipping logistics of a financial house (that never ships parcels) that I was involved with 10 years ago.

I replied. To tell them they were now on the list of companies I would never ever use. A fact they might care to consider before spamming people.

[polygonum]

A very nasty mechanism, CryptoLocker seems to be very competently written. Even writes a list of all encrypted files to the registry.

I think it arrives as an attachment in a zip - so you have to a) open the email; b) open the zip; c) execute the exe. I think you also need to have access to multiple specific internet locations. Despite all that, it has infected all too many systems.

[Dave Liquorice]

Oh is that what has been in the few spams that have actually got past the greylisting, RBL checks etc. Had a little spate of those earlier in the week, 3 or 4 over a couple of days. Normally a "missed parcel delivery" or similar, email has .zip attachment with an .exe inside.

[David.WE.Roberts]

Last couple of days I've been getting mails through the BT SPAM filter clearly marked as SPAM by a relay further up the delivery chain.

For instance SPAM Assassin says "SPAM!!!!!" including in the headers and modifying the subject line and it still gets passed through.

Cheers

Dave R

[polygonum]

I think (but am not sure) that these have been delivered as if from Companies House. Though there is obviously no reason they should restrict themselves to one scam...