Today I received this e-mail. It looks like some kind of spam to me, but I’m not quite sure what to think about it. Probably they just try to verify my e-mail-address for further spamming. What do you think?
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I agree with Derek - it’s just some slimy little SOB trolling for valid email IDs he can then sell to even slimier mass mailers.
Another one is this “voice mail waiting” scam where you get e-mail saying there’s a voice mail waiting for you from someone you never heard of.
My rule of thumb is to delete anything even almost questionable from people you don’t know - and ask those you do know if they sent it before you delete it.
Definitely spam. I get about five of these a day (from different senders), most of which get quarantined by Postini (a few do manage to sneak through). Just delete them…definitely do not respond to them.
Another interesting spam alert. I went to Postini today to clear out my inbox and found two virus-infested messages. They contained nonsense, and neither of them was actually from anyone here or anyone I’ve ever communicated with, but the “return addresses” were dw.wisely@ihway.com and bsykes@whistleplayers.zzn.com! I imagine one of the viruses has spidered email addresses from here…it happens…but just a reminder that, if you’re not expecting someone to send you something, don’t open any attachments! You may think you recognize the name on the email, or the return address may sound like it came from something you’d be interested in, but take a really close look at it.
Those emails are so funny. Someone I know told me the other day that he was exchanging emails with a girl online, a girl who wanted to meet him, have some “fun” (she wanted nothing serious you see, she was just out of a tough relationship) and she had a picture, she was gorgeous, off course.
So this guy was wondering if he should “join” her website, because she has a website, off course.
Anyway, I had to tell him that all of this was a automatic system. They had a long exchange by email, but when you looked carefully at “her” emails, there was never anything personnal, it was well written and meant to make people believe it was personnal. I’m sure it works, some fools will get on “her” website, pay 10$ (it’s free but the 10$ is just administration fee!), in hope of getting a date or something.
This snopes.com site is an excellent place to check out all the spam and glurge and dying child pleas and outright crap that gets sent by both spammers and well meaning, albeit gullible, friends.