Watch out if you get such a message in MSN!

[zicovsky]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Damn.. His virus-infected MSN is getting smarter. Instead of repeating the same old messages again and again, it's now sending me variations every few minutes.

maybe it's really you, you should check the pic to be sure.

sometimes i get these messages also, i clicked it once, but i wasn't paying attention to who sent the message, it was automatically. but i closed the browser after it opened

[Zenphic]

Originally Posted by peaz

yeah, but it's also suprising to realise how many people actually believe these sort of thing. seriously, even the nigerian scams. I personally knew of one who actually followed through just because there was a human response to their response.... errr duh? But i think they do know it's a scam la in the end and didn't lose any money.

Nigerian scams are for real!

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[jasperchc]

i get those african lottery scam a few times as well, the red flag tend to be rise when they ask for your bank account number sometimes it just makes you wonder where did they get your email address from

[lee_what2004]

when I receive those message at msn, I just told them they got virus, at the end, doing some virus busting

[belikethat]

Originally Posted by Papercut

Even with a payout of 750,000 quid I'd still think twice before driving another KIA



My friends were just talking about that one...so it's a new thing? I've tried a legit one in the past though.

do not use them, u risk ur side and also ur contact list
giving away valid email address, they could had sell it or send spam to u and ur frends

if u wanna know how deleted you, you other im which has that feature, even meebo.com has it.. in live u have to manualy check if u can delete ur contact list in the option, it means he or she has deleted you.. however i still have frens i tot they have deleted me but still sending me PM.. so it;s not accurate

[rogue_tomato]

Wow, thanks for the tip! I will keep my eye out for any suspicious msg's... good thing I don't have an "Eric Wong" in my contacts

[jaytech]

Common sense and Pidgin = simple solution

[Zenphic]

Originally Posted by jaytech

Common sense and Pidgin = simple solution

Pidgin should be susceptible to the same spam though, unless it has some built-in security features

[peaz]

nope. you'll still get those messages if u use pigdin... the only thing you won't get is to get infected and be the victim of sending those messages out. but then again, if you use meebo, trillian or other multi IM apps.... that works too.