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| May 31 @ 3:29 AM |
question on scam-please any help?
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SignandPost
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Hallo, I am new on this site, but I enjoyed reading a lot of posts and... it feels as if I "know" some of you :)
I have been reading a lot about scams, and I would like to share my experience and ask a question as a cyber-ignorant.
I am actively doing online dating (though not on this site...I am here for this fantastic funny interesting forum!) and more than once I have been asked from the guy I contacted on the site to contact them on a private email address. Aaah, honesty! I have dome it of course and for a ceratin time I got lucky- I think they were ok people. I also sent my pics to a couple of them  I do not do that anymore.
However, lately a guy has asked me right away to contact me through a private email address and I did it... then he told me to contact him on another one.. at which point I became suspicious. Long story short, the address from which I wrote hm, which worked fine for long time, suddenly has problems. I cannot open any email, nor delete emails anymore. I am afraid he is involved in this problems in some way.
My question is: what are the risks of giving a private email address (with no real name or phone number, ecc..) versus talking via a website? I write from my PC at home. can they infect the PC or something else??
please help me, all of you cyber-expert. I do not want to be harmed but at the same time I do not want to become paranoid. 
thanks a lot, and... guys/girls are you cool. (this is off-topic, I know)
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| May 31 @ 4:25 AM |
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nah12
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if you open an attachment from someone whether you knew them or not you could have gotten a virus, keylogger, trojan or other things. He could have know and he might not have know his machine was infected ...
if you have an anti-virus on your pc running then do a scan and make sure it is updated if not then you can do a free online scan... but i'd also do a trojan scan as well as they are different from a virus and need to be scanned by a trojan scanner as well.....
if you need any help go to the computer threads (further down the list) and you can find it there and if not just ask......
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| Jun 1 @ 5:22 AM |
question on scam-please any help?
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SignandPost
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Hi Nah,
thanks for your answer! I did not open any attachment, I just opened his emails and answered them.
I do a computer scan every now and then with spybot, it's a free program I found on internet. I guess it scans for trojans as well, but not sure -am not so strong on computer technology (although I work on microprocessors, its heart...go figure!).
keep up with your posts and answers, I love to read them on the dating and romance thread. 
cheers!!S&P
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