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surewest
Anon
2014-Dec-4 9:14 pm
SpamJust curious
I get a lot of alerts from companies thanking me for my order, which I have not done.
Costco, Home Depot, fed ex to name a few.
Does this suggest I should change my email password?
Or does this kind of stuff get through anyway.
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I have been getting a few also.. possibly the holiday season? |
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 pcdebbbirdbrain
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to surewest
Delete email. Done.
Dont answer them, forward them, or follow links. They probably send out hundreds and get a few bites. |
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to surewest
You should change your passwords regularly.
But that will have no effect on the incoming mail. Most of these are just blind spam, hoping one of the millions of addresses they send it to take the bait. Delete them. Don't try to unsubscribe, as that "option" in a spam message does nothing but verify your email address, making it more valuable to sell to other spammers. |
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Just typical SPAM subject lines. Some lines work better than others, I'm sure. Which subject would you be more tempted to open?
"Lonely Russian Girls Want To meet You!!!"
or
"Invoice for your approved credit card purchase"
I think the Invoice message is less obvious, and if you haven't ordered anything may make you think you're an ID theft victim. You're not actually the victim until you open the attached "Invoice". |
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said by drjenkins:Which subject would you be more tempted to open? "Invoice for your approved credit card purchase of Lonely Russian Girls Wanting To meet You!!!" |
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surewest to pcdebb
Anon
2014-Dec-5 12:11 pm
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I don't answer them. |
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to Camelot One
Ok, thanks. |
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surewest to drjenkins
Anon
2014-Dec-5 12:13 pm
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Thanks |
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 SYNACKJust Firewall It
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Venice, CA |
to surewest
This has been the subject of several recent news stories and is a new twist used by spammers. Just ignore. Do a google search and you'll find many recent articles, such as this avast blog. |
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 DrStrangeTechnically feasible
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to surewest
Back when computers were a hobby, I helped shut down several spam operations. I don't think it's practical to try to do this any more. There are spam-friendly hosts now who can be paid off to ignore abuse complaints. There's enough collateral damage from blocklists these days that fewer and fewer ISPs and/or hosts use them [which is a shame].
The best way to deal with these now is to delete them. If you have a decent mail client, you can set up filters for the most frequently used subjects or senders. If you manage your own domain, you can use a blocklist or make your own [in which case I don't envy you]. |
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surewest to SYNACK
Anon
2014-Dec-6 11:34 am
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Okay, thanks. |
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surewest to DrStrange
Anon
2014-Dec-6 11:37 am
to DrStrange
I appreciate all your email responses. I don't need any more. I just ignore them.
Thanks again!!! |
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surewest to DrStrange
Anon
2014-Dec-6 11:39 am
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Oops, hit send as I was re reading my post.
I'm not ignoring your posts...LOL! I'm ignoring the email spam. |
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DrStrangeTechnically feasible
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No problem.  |
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 NormanSI gave her time to steal my mind away
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to surewest
I have changed my email passwords in response to reported password compromises (notably Yahoo! breaches), but not for spam.
I have received a "Costco" spam recently. Run-of-the-mill "phish" Scammer hoping I will give up information about myself without checking the validity of the email sources.
The funniest ones are the "E-ZPass" toll-skipping notices. I have not driven in an E-ZPass state since before that payment system was implemented. I actually live in a "FasTrak" state. |
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said by NormanS:The funniest ones are the "E-ZPass" toll-skipping notices. I have yet to see one that didn't read like it was written by a 5 year old. I know a lot of these spammers are over-seas, but you would think they would at least put forth the effort to use proper English when trying to steal money. |
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surewest to NormanS
Anon
2014-Dec-7 1:55 pm
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Yep, got those too! |
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The E-Z pass spam is the funniest, at least for me.
Being that I don't own a vehicle nor do I have a license their spam/scam attempt is futile. Not that I'd fall for any kind of spam or scams anyway. I'm very savvy so I'm usually the one educating family and friends on **** like that. |
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 Kibbles
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Lately I have been getting a lot of "Online Walmart..thank you for you order" which in the e-mail states the order can be picked up at any Walmart  "Online shop Walmart received an order, whose recipient is you. The order can be picked in any local store of our network. Please, keep in mind, that you have only 4 days to reserve your order. Detailed order information can be found here. Walmart" |
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DrStrangeTechnically feasible
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They're probably hoping someone will follow the link in the e-mail to a fake website and enter their login info for the real site. Phishing. |
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 Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDIS
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Those are like the fake shipping notifications, and are either phishing attempts or lead to malware installs. I get a lot of them in my Yahoo spam folder. |
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