I get at least 10 a week of hose bogus messages. Most are so obviously
wrong but once in a while real scrutiny is needed. Actual email
addresses as you mentioned are a key filter factor.
I withdraw my comment regarding picking cyber criminals to death with a
hot salty dull pin. Why not lease them out to car companies for use as
crash test dummies?
Patrick NJ5G
On 1/26/2019 9:46 AM, Alan NV8A wrote:
I got an email a few days ago purporting to be from Chase Bank about a
problem with my account. I do have a Chase card but not a regular bank
account.
I use Thunderbird for reading emails, and I display in plain text
unless clicking the "Show HTML" button seems appropriate, so I could
see that the sender's email address was obviously nothing to do with
Chase, and the "Log in" button went to somewhere other than Chase.
When I tried to forward it to abuse@chase.com, my ISP blocked it as
"Spam" -- and even when I put spaces between some of the letters in
that email address and link URL. So why did the ISP let it get to me
in the first place, you ask. Because I got fed up with them flagging
as Spam messages that were not Spam (especially from Yahoo groups), so
I told them to stop *their* Spam checks and let me decide what is and
isn't Spam.
73
Alan NV8A
On 1/23/19 12:13 PM, David Robbins wrote:
I got one yesterday that was obvious phishing... it was from an
address I didn't know, it was addressed to 'undisclosed recipients',
and it had a .doc file. The text of the message said to enable
editing to read the payment info, which should never be needed! I
sent it to my virus scanner service desk because the scanner didn't
alarm on it... they came back this morning with updates to their
definitions files because it was a new one. Just fair warning, there
are new attacks every day and some day you may be a target before it
has been identified.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net:7373
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf
Of Marsh KA5M
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 16:44
To: TowerTalk
Subject: [TowerTalk] FW: Your Enrolled Payment has been initiated
Got the below e-mail this morning. It came with an attached .doc that
I did not click on.
Marsh, KA5M
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk
<towertalk-bounces@contesting.comcontabilidad@empresasolympia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 3:36 AM
To: marsh@ka5m.net
Subject: Your Enrolled Payment has been initiated
Dear,
Attached is your invoice from TowerTalk.
ACCOUNT NUMBER
1256442
INVOICE NUMBER
DKG435138-88
AMOUNT
£551.72
As always, thank you for your business.
TowerTalk
021 8997 3733
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