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bogus invoice requests


peter richards

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We had one that got through our filters at work and someone opened it on his windows phone, couldn't make sense of it and when he got in the office opened it on his networked desk top. Had some sort of virus that hadn't yet made it into the AV database and caused all sorts of problems. Was an invoice for timber.

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not sure greg , im getting about half a dozen or more a day , comes with the name of whoever male and female , with invoice there is a paperclip on some of them I just delete them , but I thought id ask here to see if I can stop them ,

been tempted to open it just to maybe reply and tell them to fxxx off but atm I havnt

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Delete them, they are usually a virus or hidden ransomware, had a few customers caught out by these. It infects the local computer by going through all documents and encrypting them with a key that they then charge you for, probably around £500 and say without the key, you can't get any documents back, you have 48 hours to obtain key or they delete the key and unencryption is lost. If you are in a work environment, you'll probably have mapped drives to a network server, they program moves onto those drives and starts encrypting those as well ... hence the requirement for backups and make sure they are done on a regular basis.

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ok thanks . no its my home pc

 

Do you backup any of your data? Lots of people don't ... and when they've lost all of the photos, taken over the years along with letters, spreadsheets etc it can be painful ... I'm probably just as guilty about not backing up data but I do have an external HDD that I've got a copy of some stuff on but don't do it as regularly as I should, probably once a week and then unplug the drive to make sure it's not caught if it ever happens.

 

If you want to look into it a little further, search for cryptolocker, you'll find a whole host of info.

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ok guys thank you , atm jive no , so ill look into it

 

Peter, my best suggestion to you and everyone is to buy an external HDD, as large as you can afford, 2tb, 3tb or whatever your data requirements are, copy all your data from my documents folder to this or where-ever you keep it, unplug it and repeat this process once a week or month so at least you have a copy if something goes wrong.

 

I keep saying to myself that I should take my HDD round to my parents, that way I've got an offsite backup in case of fire but never got round to it.

 

Another alternative is to use a cloud based solution, Hotmail's OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox etc, usually, any changes made to your docs are automatically synced out to the cloud but this depends on how much data you've got to store.

 

Good luck and be vigilant with emails :)

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