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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Good Heavens! I didn't know that sort of nonsense still goes on.
No link in it? That would be odd for a fraud or phishing attempt, but it's not clear what this is.
Chain letters (postal in those days) were quite common in the 1960s, but faded away, I suppose as people realised they were only a nuisance and the only sensible thing to do with them was just throw them away. (I received one or two, I think, as well as early, postal versions of the "Nigerian Scam".)
It was hard to work out their motive then, and this one is certainly just utter rubbish; but such communications by e-post may have deeper criminal purposes such as information-gathering or identity-theft.
If your e-mail system has what on mine is called "View Source", it may reveal a second sending address, quite different from the one you can see and possibly with a very odd-looking name and domain. That is common on criminal-attempt posts.
Obviously, Do Not Forward It To Anyone!
Block its sender and delete it.
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I received a totally unconvincing, clumsy, criminal e-post only yesterday. This was the sort pretending to be a "lawyer" acting for an un-named relative of mine I was informed had died 20 years ago and left me money. Yeah- and I'm the Shah of Persia. Just the word "lawyer", let alone second-language English, showed immediately its foreign origin; but this is an old trick. I forwarded it to three "Phishing@" authorities, blocked its sender and domain, deleted it.
No link in it? That would be odd for a fraud or phishing attempt, but it's not clear what this is.
Chain letters (postal in those days) were quite common in the 1960s, but faded away, I suppose as people realised they were only a nuisance and the only sensible thing to do with them was just throw them away. (I received one or two, I think, as well as early, postal versions of the "Nigerian Scam".)
It was hard to work out their motive then, and this one is certainly just utter rubbish; but such communications by e-post may have deeper criminal purposes such as information-gathering or identity-theft.
If your e-mail system has what on mine is called "View Source", it may reveal a second sending address, quite different from the one you can see and possibly with a very odd-looking name and domain. That is common on criminal-attempt posts.
Obviously, Do Not Forward It To Anyone!
Block its sender and delete it.
+++++
I received a totally unconvincing, clumsy, criminal e-post only yesterday. This was the sort pretending to be a "lawyer" acting for an un-named relative of mine I was informed had died 20 years ago and left me money. Yeah- and I'm the Shah of Persia. Just the word "lawyer", let alone second-language English, showed immediately its foreign origin; but this is an old trick. I forwarded it to three "Phishing@" authorities, blocked its sender and domain, deleted it.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M