Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Online Fraud

Today I had over 25 messages, all from my AOL address and were addressed apparently to everyone in my contact list. When you open the message, it is an advertisement from a Canadian pharmacy, advertising erectile dysfunction medications.

First, I doubt seriously that the firm is Canadian, or even a legitimate source for these drugs, since it is doubtful they would stoop to hacking people's e-mail. For the record, I did not send any of the messages. I have also received the same from others that are similarly affected. Since our Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn't seem to be interested in pursuing off shore law breakers, I don't know what to do about this scam.

If any of you have the expertese to stop this, or to punish them back, please do so. Here is the address on line:

> http://www.allprimed.com/useful_shop.html

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Herb,

I had the same problem. Mine came from a specific email address, actually this happened twice. I do not know how the two individuals got the problem fixed.

NJ

Bob Prince said...

Herb,
I too have received those types of messages. I have narrowed it down to two friends of mine, both of whom have MSN.COM address's. Have you seen any such patterns ??
cheers,
Bob

Anonymous said...

Nope one of the spams came from my duaghters email address and she uses yahoo but I think it attached to facebook. The other email address was another yahoo account.

NJ