Attention spoofing mail

Hi Christian - that's my personal email address!

Unfortunately spammers "spoof" the sender's email address, so although it looks as though their email been sent from that address, it hasn't actually. Ironically I received one myself this morning:

    "Hallo,

    In der Anlage das SEPA Formular und die neue Rechnungsanschrift.
    http://attsystematics.***/Scan/

    Viele Grüße
    events@cobraclub.nl"

This was no more from the Netherlands Cobra Club than the one you received was from me! 

I made the mistake of using my personal email address for all the ECM 2016 communications - so it then got added to the address books of hundreds of PCs across Europe. The problem is that if any one of those PCs then gets infected with an email address book virus/trojan, my address gets added to the spammers' lists.

As a result, this address now receives vast quantities of spam (in English, French, German and Dutch) - to the extent that my spam filter is becoming unmanageable, and the account is almost unusable.
 
So - sadly too late - I've learned the hard way not to use my main personal email address for such communications!

As with all these types of emails, and as you've pointed out, don't be fooled by the recipient address, and be sure not to click on any links or open any attachments!

Alan

The upside is that I receive regular "good news" emails informing me that I've won the jackpot in lotteries all over Europe - I've never felt so rich!

And did you win another jackpot Alan?