Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed101.telia.com!starscream.dk.telia.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Subject: Re: Invitation to join LinkedIn. Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc From: Jess X-Editor: EmailEdit 6.00 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:12 GMT Message-ID: References: <6924f75352.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <5255258988see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <52553a615etim@invalid.org.uk> <2a01415552.news@mistymornings.net> <525580764csee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> Organization: ITWorkshop User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/6.03 (MsgServe/6.00) (RISC-OS/5.17) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.20.176.158 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=iYem^]nTc:gO3d^23S\Y2mYSB=nbEKnkkgBnE3BI?bUjMo@OLBVNESj?J[Q:hI>9EmjOgkk0RWXjaO?feD6EobdajG]R`f]9k4i6iZP@]=lolg X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.acorn.misc:3417 In message <525580764csee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> Russell Hafter News wrote: > Trouble is, how can you tell if these e-mails are genuine, > rather than some form of phishing or other spam? (Comments on general spam and phishing) On a RISC OS (or other plain text system) it is usually totally obvious. 1. Link destinations are shown, and if they don't match, then you know it's a nasty. 2. They don't usually bother to make the plain text part look authentic anyway. The only time I nearly got caught out was when I had given my hotmail as a second address for ebay/paypal (I know - stupid) and I was expecting an email due to an issue. I was just about to click when I spotted "Ebat" written somewhere. Every email client I have is configured to plain text now. (Wish it was possible for webmail) -- Jess Iyonix