Just A Reminder To Be Careful With Your Emails This Holiday Season

Spam bots again shit don't they ever learn.

 

Yup. I received confirmation of holiday tickets that I purchased at the Hilton Orlando with a Visa card ending with the digits 1111. *snicker*

 

Also - don't click the 'No' either. Any click may lead to trouble. Just delete it!

I once received a 5m$ endowment from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation! In my Hotmail account no less!

 

I like to mark those kind of nefarious emails as spam to train my spam filter.

 

Hey Laura
We have been bombarded lately with several "targeted" phishing variants that are all very similar and they go something like:-

These emails seem to originate somewhere in India but with proxy servers they could be from anywhere. The emails started arriving in early October and when the originating domains are black listed they come back with a new domain name several days later. All pcs on my network are clear of trojans, spyware, adware and are virus free so the spammers must have a list of "real world" email addresses (mine included) with the correlating list of matching real names and they are persistently sending out these targeted emails.
Sadly most of my email addresses can't be deleted as I use them for business so I just keep deleting these emails

 

In the past I would look at the email's header, find the real originating email address, and reply with a message I can't post here.
More often than not it worked.
Now I just delete them.

Also...
Be weary of spam/scam SMSs which are on the increase.
While not often, I have even received some on my mobile modem.

 

Hey Eldon, I look in the page source code as the header sometimes has a spoofed address.
An example of this was a recent email that was sent to my sister, purportedly from a close family friend (according to the return email address in the header) who was sending his Linkedin profile as he was changing jobs but in the source code it was apparent it was a total stranger as the email originated from the Ukraine and it was linked to several russian dating and porn sites. When my sister clicked on the the Linkedin link to check his profile it subscribed her to half a dozen russian porn and dating sites as well as took control of her browser.....and that's when she called me
Clean up was pretty straight forward but I couldn't seem impress upon my sister the importance of not clicking on links in unsolicited emails and what would have happened if instead of it being porn sites it was ransomware and on her work computer

 

Recently, a few attached attached invoices came my way for approval before I accepted payment. Ofc I didn't open anything and deleted all!Yet, It seems its a play to our curiosity and natural leaning to associate. Hmph! Its best for me to be a reclusive and only share myself, during gossip over the backyard fence.

 

Wow! $50 dollars just for filling out a short survey! Whoopie Doo. Jump right in.

Nah, I'm not gullible (much)