A few minutes later my phone went off as well. When we both took a moment to check the emails on our phones, we noted there were gaps in the email subject, eg "Subj ect".
This tweaked a warning in my mind and I remembered something I had read in an email I had received earlier from the Sunshine Coast Computer Club!
This is what the Computer Club email said:
'Dodgy' E Mails
Members should be aware that there seems to be some 'dodgy' e mails circulating. The message may come from someone whom you know, and the subject line generally contains a word misspelled with a space between some letters e.g. Blaz ed or so ld. Sometimes the email may come from someone you know who does not normally send you e mails.
The message refers to an offline or a tagged message with a link to view on line. These messages were not sent by the purported sender. Do not click on the link under any circumstance. If anybody has done so, then they should check their computer for malware as a matter of urgency.
If the sender is known to you personally you could contact them and ask if they had sent you the e mail and if they have not sent the e mail advise them to check their computers for malware.
As the messages had come through on our phones there wasn't any danger of an infection on our computers. I had received two suspicious emails from Trish's GMail account! She jumped straight online and immediately changed her GMail password! Then she carefully deleted all suspicious emails from her Inbox, Trash and Spam folders as well.
After that she did a Malware scan of her laptop. There was minimal risk of infection as the emails were not opened nor were they downloaded from her GMail Account 'up in the cloud' to her laptop.
But it is a timely reminder for us all!
We have arranged to head to the Headland Golf Club today with Gordon and Anne. While confirming arrangements on the phone, Gordon said he had seen in the newspaper where Gary O'Shanessy had died at 58 years.
Oshy was a student in the very first class I ever taught as a trained teacher at Leongatha P.S. We later caught up again as colleagues when we both taught at Eumemmerring P.S. Later Oshy came to work under me at Doveton North P.S. We were great mates!
He was clearly the best and most talented teacher I ever saw. He could do things with kids that I could only dream about!
He went out of teaching a few years ago, ill-health retired.
It is a sad loss to the teaching world!
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