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From: "Marion L Putnam" <>
Subject: Re: [BAGBY] Emails w/attachments from other researchers
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:01:40 -0500
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Sherri
If I receive an attachment, even from someone I know I always save it to a
floppy and virus scan it.
Chick

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Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:25 AM
Subject: [BAGBY] Emails w/attachments from other researchers


> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
>
> Surnames: Bagby
> Classification: Query
>
> Message Board URL:
>
> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RBC.2ACIB/240
>
> Message Board Post:
>
> In the last few weeks I have been receiving numerous emails from
researchers.
>
> They come to me at and they are a private email. They
are not from the Bagby Rootsweb List.
>
> All of them have had an attachment that is a virus.
>
> Many of the emails have come from email addreses that some of you had in
the past and you no longer use. You have a new email address.
>
> I have emailed you at your current address and copied and pasted the email
that I received into that email to show you what I received and to warn you
about this problem.
>
> It seems the spammers are not only malicious, but bored and they must be
very ambitious people to search through the boards or whatever means they
are using to acquire email addresses to send these emails.
>
> I want you to know that I realize that none of you sent me those emails
and I also want you to know that I will not send anyone an email that has an
attachment or an embedded file.
>
> If you receive an email from and it has an attachment or
an embedded file, do not open it. It did not come from me.
>
> So far, all of these emails that I have received have come from Bagby
researchers. I don't know why that is. Maybe they're working in
alphabetical order through the Boards, or maybe I'm receiving them because
most of my posts are on the Bagby Board.
>
> It's not triggered from my email address book because the old email
addresses that have been used are not in my email address book.
>
> Just be careful folks. If you receive an email with an attachment from
someone you know, it would be worth sending an email to the person and
asking them if they sent it with an attachment before you open it.
>
> An ounce of prevention....
>
> Sherri Schaefer Bagby
> http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/a/g/Sherri-Bagby
>
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