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Somebody is sending out large numbers of mails pretending to be from Caleida.
The text of the messsage will look like something important from Caleida, and here are some examples of the subject header:

YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY UPDATED YOUR PASSWORD
Warning Message: Your services near to be closed.
MEMBERS SUPPORT
YOUR PASSWORD HAS BEEN UPDATED
Important Notification
You have successfully updated your password
qucjwxjrmtrc (or some other random characters)

Finally, the mail will end with these two lines:

+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Caleida Antivirus - www.caleida.com


The attachement is NOT virus free, it IS a virus. So under no circumstances should you open it.
The mail is NOT from Caleida, we will NEVER send any attachements to you. And there is no such thing as "Caleida Antivirus".
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From:[info]bleed_a_tear
Date: June 16th, 2005 - 10:38 pm
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Thank you so much morten I got an email like that, I just deleted it after reading this.
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From:[info]penumbra
Date: June 17th, 2005 - 12:07 am
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Thanks for the heads up!

Why do i never get any of these emails? Do they hate me or something?

:(
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From:[info]cute_kittens10
Date: June 17th, 2005 - 01:58 am
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lol I don't get them either, maybe that hate us both...we should start a club! :D

~Angel
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From:[info]cello
Date: June 17th, 2005 - 06:27 pm
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Personally, I'm thankful for their hatred of me.
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From:[info]apoetictragedy
Date: June 17th, 2005 - 12:45 am
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Thanks for alarming us about it. hmm. i should check my email now. thanks again.
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From:[info]_whatshername_
Date: June 17th, 2005 - 03:52 am
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ooh thanks!
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From:[info]__bleed
Date: June 18th, 2005 - 04:14 am
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Thanks for telling us that Morten. I havent received anything like that yet and I am glad I read this before I checked my Mail.
From:[info]__cassettetapes
Date: June 18th, 2005 - 11:51 am

thank you !!

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i just wanted to thank you, morten, for warning us about this !!
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From:[info]lost_withoutyou
Date: June 21st, 2005 - 01:53 am

Wow.

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I ot some passowrd change email in my bulk folder...I didnt open it...I was just like"i havent changed my password"
From:[info]___rottenxx
Date: June 22nd, 2005 - 09:17 pm
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Thank you Morten. ♥
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From:[info]starsplash
Date: June 24th, 2005 - 11:42 pm
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Thanks, warning much appreciated.
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From:[info]krissa
Date: June 27th, 2005 - 12:58 pm
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is this just for users who have created a new account, or is this mail just going to random caleida users...?
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From:[info]morten
Date: June 28th, 2005 - 12:48 pm
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It is not specifically sent to new users.
Whoever is sending it has no way of knowing Caleida members private email addresses, unless they are made public in the user info.
I only see the mail that gets sent to Caleidas mail server, to all kinds of random names @caleida.com, so I don't know if it's going other places. I would just rather warn about it than risk some people think it's a mail from Caleida and open up the attachment and get their computers infected.
The mail text does really look like something Caleida might send, such as a password change email
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