HORROR E-MAIL STORIES

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I used to love sending files by email. My friends and I would send each other digital photographs of holidays

we had been on and songs we had written using software. It was a great way of sending stuff because it was

so quick. I knew there was a risk of getting a computer virus from the Internet, but did not think it mattered with things like emails.

My mate Pete sent me his digital photos of a gig we went to and I opened them as usual. They were great, but I noticed the green light on my computer flashing really quickly. When I next checked, every single file I had in the ‘My Documents’ area of my computer had been dele

Translation

Jo solia enviar arxius per e-mail. Els meus amics i jo ens enviavem fotos de les vacances i cançons que escriviem fent servir un programa. Era molt divertit enviar coses perquè era ràpid. Ja sé que hi ha un risc d’obtindre un virus d' Internet, però no pensava que pogués passar amb coses com el e-mail.

El meu amic Pete em va enviar les seves fotos d’un concert que vam anar, el vaig obrir com sempre. Eren genials, però vaig veure que la llum verda de l' ordinador parpejava molt ràpid. Quan vaig comprovar, tots els arxius que tenia a "Els meus documents" de l' ordinador estaven esborrats.

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You know how you hear about emails from dodgy people? You always read the story and think the person has been daft for opening such an obviously trick email. I never opened emails from people I did not know or trust.

Well, it is daft, but I got an email from someone claiming to be my bank. You have to trust your bank, don’t

you? I opened the email and it asked me to open an attachment which included my details. When I opened the attachment, the details were not very complete and I got suspicious, so I rang my bank to check. They said the email was not from them, so I closed the email and the attachment.

I got a phone call from my bank that afternoon. Someone had got onto my online bank account and taken a

huge amount of money out. I kept the password on my computer, so I guess the attachment must have found

the details somehow and passed them on. I was not happy, I can tell you, but I suppose it was my own fault. I will be a lot more careful in the future about which emails and attachments I open.

Translation

Has sentit sobre els e-mails de les persones gosses? Sempre llegeixes histories i penses que la persona ha estat timada per obrir un e-mail maliciós molt obvi. Mai he obert e-mails de persones que no conec bé. Doncs, és una tonteria, però he rebut un misatge d’algú que volia ser el meu banc. Has de confiar en el teu banc, no creus? Vaig obrir el e-mail i em deia d’obrir un accessori i posar les meves dades. Quan vaig obrir l' accessori, els detalls no estaven complerts, era sospitós, així que vaig córrer cap al banc a comprovar-ho. Em van dir que no van enviar el e-mail, així que vaig tancar el correu i l’accessori.

Per la tarda vaig rebre una trucada del banc. Algú havia entrat al meu compte online del banc i havia tret una gran quantitat de diners. Vaig mantenir la contrasenya al ordinador, així que crec que algú va obtenir les dades i les hauria introduït. No estava content, et puc explicar que suposava que va ser culpa meva. Seré més cuidadós en un futur.