peter richards Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 hi guys im getting more and more of these on a daily basis , is there a way of stopping them , not opened any of them to see the amount they want , I take it they are hoping a secretary or something just pay it . peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter richards Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 anyone ????or are you all sending out the invoice requests lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheefa Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Is it an electronic invoice I.e. Spam/malicious email mate or actual printed hard copies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter richards Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jive Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter richards Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 ok thanks . no its my home pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudder Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Yep, we've been getting them on and off for the last couple of months. Luckily they end up in spam and we delete them without opening them. A right pain in the ......! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jive Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 We get a lot of these at times. I just delete anything I am not expecting with an attachment, not worth the hassle. H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter richards Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 ok guys thank you , atm jive no , so ill look into it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soopra Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 We're getting a lot of these at work.. My colleague opened one and got a virus on his computer. They're definitely malicious, just delete them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jive Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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