The worst spam I had was a full screen pop-up purporting to be from the police informing me that I'd entered into an illegal site on the web and telling my how much I stood to lose because of my "activities". It went further to explain however that in this particular case if I paid a £100.00 "fine" within 24 hours, my computer would be restored and no further action would be taken against me. I photographed the details and took it down to the police station, who were MOST INTERESTED AND TOOK FULL DETAILS CONFIRMING IT WAS VERY MUCH SPAM MAIL. He pointed out that under no circumstances would, or could, the police "fine" anybody over the internet, and that this had been designed to strike terror into the reader and panic them into paying £100.00 for absolutely nothing. He told me: "If it's an illegal sight, what's it doing up there in the first place?" and told me to contact my server, which I did. It took a full hour for the technician at the other end of the line to talk me through it step by step. Once it was up and running, I broke down, literally, because by then I'd been without sleep for more than seventy hours. Very, very frightening because at that stage I didn't know whether I should change my bank account as a precaution - it shook me up bad. They put me through Hell - literally. God, how I'd love to horse whip the *bleep*
at least the guy rang off laughing!
