"Predicted" Message from John McGowan Possible Virus

[John McGowan <>]

G'day Peter et al
I dunno what happened -it might have been me in which my sincere apologies. I 
use Apple which I thought was much less likely to do this sort of thing.  
But again my apologies.
John Mc


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> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:16:12 +1100
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] "Predicted" Message from John McGowan Possible 
> Virus
> 
> It's not necessarily from John's computer. Spammers send in the name of 
> whoever they like.
> 
> Peter Shute
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carl Clifford  
> > Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:08 AM
> > To: Bill Stent
> > Cc: Peter Shute; Birding-Aus Aus
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] "Predicted" Message from John 
> > McGowan Possible Virus
> > 
> > Bill,
> > 
> > This one looks really dodgy. It is just one line that reads 
> > " 
> > , View full message Click Here", in large blue, underlined 
> > text, with  
> > a hidden suffix which only appears when you do a select all on the  
> > message.
> > 
> > Very dodgy looking.
> > 
> > The message did not come through the B-A system, but was addressed  
> > directly to me, so, it looks like Johns computer may be compromised.
> > 
> > Such is the fun of using Windows OS.
> > 
> > Carl
> > 
> > 
> > On 24/01/2012, at 10:33 AM, Bill Stent wrote:
> > 
> > The Birding-Aus system received one with the subject line "Supervised"
> > a while back.
> > 
> > It didn't make it through though.  Looks well dodgy to me.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Peter Shute 
> > <> wrote:
> > > I haven't had one.
> > >
> > > Peter Shute
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: 
> > >>  On Behalf Of
> > >> Carl Clifford
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 9:58 AM
> > >> To: Birding-Aus Aus
> > >> Subject: [Birding-Aus] "Predicted" Message from John McGowan
> > >> Possible Virus
> > >>
> > >> Has anyone else on B-A received a strange message from John McGowan
> > >> with a subject line "Predicted" ? Looks like a trap to me. If
> > >> you have
> > >> received one I would advise not "Click Here" in the message.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>
> > >> Carl Clifford
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