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The Torrent
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH"content="1;url=https://gm-a.be/wp-admin/includes/Excelz/excelz/?email=[my email was here but i removed]">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

 

 

received that in this email google told me its risky what is it most likely im just curious??

EDIT: I KNOW ITS A VIRUS dw im just curious what the code does so im getting that it redirects one to a website am i correct?

 

 

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Do you know the person who sent you that?

Also, did you open it?

 

If you don't know them, then don't open it.

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Probably a link to a phishing site or it links to a tech scam website. Either way don't open it.

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Just now, lewdicrous said:

Do you know the person who sent you that?

Also, did you open it?

 

If you don't know them, then don't open it.

yea i know its a virus dont know and google says its sketchy

 

im just wondering what that code does

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16 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

im just wondering what that code does

We have no idea of knowing the nature of the virus you received or what it does. Really the only answers you will get to a question like this is "click it and find out", though you won't like what happens if you do.

It's a virus. Report it as a malicious email and block the sender from contacting you. DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS OR LINKS IN THE EMAIL

 

Your email address (which is still visible in the screenshot you posted by the way) has been exposed numerous times according to https://haveibeenpwned.com/

In my personal experience there's a good chance this is how you ended up on the mailing list of the people sending you the virus. Once a website has been compromised and hackers get a list of email addresses and [hopefully encrypted] passwords they will sell the list of email addresses as a mailing list to spammers. I'd recommend changing all your passwords, using unique passwords for different websites, and probably moving to a new email address since the spammers already know that one and without some strict spam filtering you won't stop emails like this coming.

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8 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

yea i know its a virus dont know and google says its sketchy

 

im just wondering what that code does

From my limited knowledge, it might send you to a website, probably a phishing site as @SpookyCitrus said.

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3 minutes ago, Spotty said:

We have no idea of knowing the nature of the virus you received or what it does. Really the only answers you will get to a question like this is "click it and find out", though you won't like what happens if you do.

It's a virus. Report it as a malicious email and block the sender from contacting you. DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS OR LINKS IN THE EMAIL

 

Your email address (which is still visible in the screenshot you posted by the way) has been exposed numerous times according to https://haveibeenpwned.com/

In my personal experience there's a good chance this is how you ended up on the mailing list of the people sending you the virus. Once a website has been compromised and hackers get a list of email addresses and [hopefully] encrypted passwords they will sell the list of email addresses as a mailing list to spammers. I'd recommend changing all your passwords, using unique passwords for different websites, and probably moving to a new email address since the spammers already know that one and without some strict spam filtering you won't stop emails like this coming.

ah,

 

ive removed it now.

 

yea that emails a really old one i got loads of emails and its not my main one at all, just saw it and saw it was a file directed to a website so was curious what the code did.

 

thats a useful website thanks.

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Definitely open it and if it takes you to a website definitely fill out all of your personal information!

 

Spoiler

/s if that wasn't obvious...

 

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