Phishing or virus email from “john@symantec.com”

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Can not confirm.

I guess the best thing to do is to send it tio symantec or PM Tony

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Hi Urrell,

I have verified that John@symantec.com is not an actual e-mail address. I imagine they're implying that John Thompson (our CEO) is sending out phishing e-mails. (As if he's not busy enough running the company.)

 

If you receive any others from that address, the safest thing to do is to delete without even opening them.

 

Cheers! 

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I posted this here as I could find no address to forward these emails to Symantec. I thought somebody would be interested as the email was pretending to be from Symantec.

Perhaps I should have taken up their offer to let them scan my machine for problems!

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Hi Urrell,

 

I think it's great that you share our concern about spam and piracy. We used to have a big problem with spam going out under our Symantec and Norton name, and at that time we had an active program to receive copies of the emails from customers so we could go after the spammers. The problem with piracy is still with us but the spam issue is much less than previously. Nevertheless, we want to review what you are seeing, so please send it to me at marian@norton.com and I'll forward to the right folks to take further action on.

 

In general, if it's not from our Digital River-hosted store, it's probably spam and should be deleted.

 

cheers,

Marian

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marianmerritt wrote:

Hi Urrell,

 

I think it's great that you share our concern about spam and piracy. We used to have a big problem with spam going out under our Symantec and Norton name, and at that time we had an active program to receive copies of the emails from customers so we could go after the spammers. The problem with piracy is still with us but the spam issue is much less than previously. Nevertheless, we want to review what you are seeing, so please send it to me at marian@norton.com and I'll forward to the right folks to take further action on.

 

In general, if it's not from our Digital River-hosted store, it's probably spam and should be deleted.

 

cheers,

Marian

Thanks for the reply but due to the lack of interest I have deleted them.
I thought that an address to send suspicious posts to (whether they were checked or not) would have been on the website of a security orientated company.
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Just to insert a little humor into this thread, I have recieved several emails from Bank of America asking me to update my account information with them.

 

I do not have an account with BOA.  :smileyvery-happy: 

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Rasputin wrote:

Just to insert a little humor into this thread, I have recieved several emails from Bank of America asking me to update my account information with them.

 

I do not have an account with BOA.  :smileyvery-happy: 

You too??