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Do you know that X/Y/Z? Do you expect a package? Do you recognize the email sender as trusted and familiar? Did you gave the sender your email address?
Do you know that X/Y/Z? .... Do you recognize the email sender as trusted and familiar? Did you gave the sender your email address?
That is not necessarily a reason to trust it, XYZ's email account including contacts may have been compromised. Any information listed about XYZ could be spoofed.
If you are not expecting a package from XYZ I'd contact them by other means to find out if they sent you something.
Right. But if I know X/Y/Z - I would call them and ask if they sent me a package. I thought it was common sense...
Also while email viruses are real, computers aren’t infected just by opening emails anymore. Just opening an email to view it is safe – although attachments and links can still be dangerous to open.
I have been getting these frequently now. A few times a week. I just delete them. If you hover your cursor over the sender name you will see that the actual source of the message is something totally bogus. In case you have never done this it gives the real email address of the sender.
Yes, it is a scam. Anyone sending you a package will just send it for you to receive, or tell you about it verbally or through their online FB or email account.
People, if YOU haven't initiated it, but have a "reply" to it, IT IS A SCAM.
Or this: (from someone who sounds vaguely familiar)
Hi, XXX(my first name), I just signed this petition to provide more funding for KPL Music School courses for K-12. Click this button to add your name to this worthy cause.
And of course the button is some strange email address you never heard of. Another one to stay away from.
Right. But if I know X/Y/Z - I would call them and ask if they sent me a package. I thought it was common sense...
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Not "common" sense.
While the threat from opening an email has been defended against, the behavior that spread the "I Love You" virus, among dozens of others (Join the Crew, and even Good Times, where the virus action was executed in the behavior of the person receiving the email, rather than in the computer itself) hasn't changed, since human nature never improves.
I recall the nature of these viruses (or virii, for the old school purest) because where I worked some people, even after getting a briefing, would open the email. Their explanation was "I didn't think it was a virus because I know the sender." (That it would come from someone you know was stated in the briefing.)
If you hover your cursor over the sender name you will see that the actual source of the message is something totally bogus. In case you have never done this it gives the real email address of the sender.
This can be spoofed and cannot be trusted. e.g. They set the reply address as support@example.com in the hopes you see it thinking it's legitimate. The link in the body "click here to login" leads to illegitimate but real looking site
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