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Email Spam from FireFox Profile

JD_Racer_Dad
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Received this email this morning. I'm sure it's not yours. My Profile Email address is marked as do not show.

Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:14:46 -0400 From: "Mozilla Firfox Award"<mozilla_award@firefox.org> Subject: Mozilla Firefox Award

Dear: e-Mail Winner,

You have been selected in the on-going Mozilla Firefox award held this Second Quarter 2012.We the Promo Board are pleased to inform you that you alongside nine(9)other lucky winners have been approved for a payment of $1,2m Dollars (One Million, two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only).If you did receive this email, it means you are one of the Ten(10)luckywinners.

CLAIMS PROCESSING OFFICER: Name:Mr Fred Moore Email: mfred@yahoo.cn

You are also advised to provide him with the under listed information as soon as possible:

YOUR COMPLETE FULL NAMES: YOUR FULL ADDRESS: SEX: AGE: COUNTRY: OCCUPATION: PHONE/FAX/MOBILE:


We are glad to have you as one of our lucky winners.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Mercy Davis. Online Co-ordinator.

Received this email this morning. I'm sure it's not yours. My Profile Email address is marked as do not show. Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:14:46 -0400 From: "Mozilla Firfox Award"<mozilla_award@firefox.org> Subject: Mozilla Firefox Award Dear: e-Mail Winner, You have been selected in the on-going Mozilla Firefox award held this Second Quarter 2012.We the Promo Board are pleased to inform you that you alongside nine(9)other lucky winners have been approved for a payment of $1,2m Dollars (One Million, two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only).If you did receive this email, it means you are one of the Ten(10)luckywinners. CLAIMS PROCESSING OFFICER: Name:Mr Fred Moore Email: mfred@yahoo.cn You are also advised to provide him with the under listed information as soon as possible: YOUR COMPLETE FULL NAMES: YOUR FULL ADDRESS: SEX: AGE: COUNTRY: OCCUPATION: PHONE/FAX/MOBILE: We are glad to have you as one of our lucky winners. Yours Sincerely, Mrs. Mercy Davis. Online Co-ordinator.

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Which he has done so already at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/708534

also firefox.org is not a Mozilla site.

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JD_Racer_Dad
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My email address is showing up even though "Make my email public:" is unmarked.

cor-el
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That is because you used your email address for the user name.

You can post a "Want to change my user name" request in the contributors forum if you want to change the user name.

Add [ATTN Admin] in front of the subject title to get the attention of a forum Administrator.

James
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Which he has done so already at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/708534

also firefox.org is not a Mozilla site.

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JD_Racer_Dad
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Thanks for the help with the User Name. I did know the email was not from Mozilla. Only posted it so others would be wary. Not sure that always helps. Thanks again.