This morning, I got a strange e-mail which I'm presuming is spam/a scam. It was unusual in the sense that since I changed e-mail addresses, I get less spam, and the few bits I do get, are marked as such. This wasn't marked by gmail as spam, but Outlook had marked it as junk.

Anyway, it came from an unknown person/e-mail address, and was sent to 'undisclosed recipients' (which always makes me supsicious!). It was simply headed 'Hey' rather than to a named person, and said that someone had posted a malicious picture of me on Facebook and that I should take steps to remove it. It provided a link (which I didn't click) and on further investigation, although the printed link was to Facebook, the actual embedded link was to a completely unrelated site I'd never heard of.

Anyone else had this? I Googled it, but didn't come across anything about it. It seems like spam to me, but I thought I'd see whether any more computer literate people might be able to confirm.

These emails are very common. It is a scam/attempt to put malicious code on your computer. Delete any emails like this.

That is SPAM. But even when it is not so obvious, if in doubt assume that it is SPAM.

Thanks - I did think it was spam, but just checking!

I'm definitely alerting the kids to this one, so thanks for posting. It looks to me like the sort of thing that youngsters might easily fall for.

(I got the usual one from 'the Halifax' today )

Yes, in some ways it was more believeable than some, and at least caused me to doubt my own judgement!

Not reported on Snopes yet.

I Googled it again last night, and it was reported on several 'anti-spam' sites.