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Having difficulty finding who to report a junk mail that supposedly came from Firefox.

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jnette
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I received this in my junk mail today. The incoming address was: admin@teiffels.com.au Thanks for checking on it.


Sir/Madam,

Your E-mail Address has won (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds only) GBP750,000 in the Mozilla Firefox this year Online promo recently conducted. To claim this prize, contact us by email for confirmation at: myawards@inmail.sk

Congratulations!

Yours faithfully,

Jane Karl For: Mozilla Firefox Online Promo Team


Mozilla Foundation © 2011 • English (UK)

I received this in my junk mail today. The incoming address was: admin@teiffels.com.au Thanks for checking on it. Sir/Madam, Your E-mail Address has won (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds only) GBP750,000 in the Mozilla Firefox this year Online promo recently conducted. To claim this prize, contact us by email for confirmation at: myawards@inmail.sk Congratulations! Yours faithfully, Jane Karl For: Mozilla Firefox Online Promo Team Mozilla Foundation © 2011 • English (UK)

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TigerZero
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I just got the same thing. I checked the properties of the email and it was sent from a unusual named server that doesn't look like one I would expect from Mozilla/Firefox. In fact when I tried to track down the "Inmail,sk" (note: calmma was used instead of a period to prevent a click-able link), I ended up at an infected web page. Fortunitly my anti-virus caught and blocked it and if it had not I'm using the Firefox add on No-Script, which would not allowed any scripts to run.

My advice would be Don't visit any Inmail,sk sites and to block emails from r3,rs,email-od,com ([173.203.166.158]). (Period was also replaced in the previous string.) Also I doubt the Mozilla people can track this back to the source with the little info we have provided here.

Modified by TigerZero