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Offline louisa maud

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DROPBOX, YET ANOTHER SCAM
« on: Wednesday 25 April 18 08:31 BST (UK) »
It appears our address book has been got at, I used dropbox last year to gather info from Sweden, perfectly fine, recently I thought a relative in England was sending me info via dropbox, WRONG, it is a scam, I have received emails from people asking me about it but we haven't sent it on, so I can only assume it is a scam, so please be careful

Louisa Maud

I might add that Dropbox is perfectly OK, till someone comes along and causes a problem
Census information is Crown Copyright,
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Granath Sweden and London
Garner, Marylebone Paddington  Northolt Ilford
Garner, Devon
Garner New Zealand
Maddieson
Parkinson St Pancras,
Jenkins Marylebone Paddington
Mizon/Mison/Myson Paddington
Tindal Marylebone Paddington
Tocock, (name changed to Ellis) London
Southam Marylebone, Paddington
Bragg Lambeth 1800's
Edermaniger(Maniger) Essex Kent Canada (Toronto)
Coveney Kent Lambeth
Sondes kent and London

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Re: DROPBOX, YET ANOTHER SCAM
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 25 April 18 21:56 BST (UK) »
Hi LM.

Sorry to read about your probelm.  Have you notified Dropbox?

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Re: DROPBOX, YET ANOTHER SCAM
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 25 April 18 22:02 BST (UK) »
love the avatar thudders  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: DROPBOX, YET ANOTHER SCAM
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 25 April 18 22:15 BST (UK) »
Louisa, Like many people I have my own internet domain name, so I can create as many email addresses as I wish.  For example I have rootschat@ "my name.co.uk" for here. I also have " Dropbox@" my-name.co.uk"  (not a real address)

Basically I create a new address for each different service I use. It is really surprising how many of them generate spam, but Dropbox has not been one of them.

It is more likely that somebody with your email address in their address book has been maliciously targeted, and software is sending you fake emails pretending to be from Dropbox.  (Of course my big fear is that my domain name host gets hacked.  If that happened, they would probably go out of business overnight.)

If Dropbox had been hacked, there would be news about it on the internet, and I have checked, and there is not anything.

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Re: DROPBOX, YET ANOTHER SCAM
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 25 April 18 22:32 BST (UK) »
I think the original person who  supposedly sent me the dropbox email had been targeted first, I tried to open  it with difficulty I might add and quickly closed it down, it wasn't till my husband had numerous suposedly from us  emails that had failed to be delivered that we realised we had a problem, after that a few people got in touch with us asking what it was all about, not opening it, wise people, one person found it I their junk mail

My husband checked and nothing has been mentioned about dropbox itself, it is just a real nuisance to be honest

Louisa Maud
Census information is Crown Copyright,
from  www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Granath Sweden and London
Garner, Marylebone Paddington  Northolt Ilford
Garner, Devon
Garner New Zealand
Maddieson
Parkinson St Pancras,
Jenkins Marylebone Paddington
Mizon/Mison/Myson Paddington
Tindal Marylebone Paddington
Tocock, (name changed to Ellis) London
Southam Marylebone, Paddington
Bragg Lambeth 1800's
Edermaniger(Maniger) Essex Kent Canada (Toronto)
Coveney Kent Lambeth
Sondes kent and London