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Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple

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On 2014-05-10 10:39:08 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> On 2014-05-03, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> On 14-05-03 13:59, David Fritzinger wrote:
>>> Just a warning to all. I just received what appears to be a phishing
>>> email t)hat appeared to be (but wasn't) from Apple.
>> 
>> Nobody should be using a email client that displays HTML as HTML, and
>> doesn't have a "view source" option.
>> 
>> "view source" is the best way to see if an email is legit or not. (the
>> "Received from" headers provide very good information. An Apple email
>> doesn't come from aol for instance),
> 
> Agreed that an Apple email doesn't come from aol, but with all this cloud
> stuff, some mails from large companies are coming from domains that aren't
> the ones you would expect.  They should pay more attention to details
> like this.

Yeah, but if you use the basic rule of "don't click in email", you 
generally don't run into issues.  If I get an email from what is 
supposedly a place that might be of interest, I just go to that place 
outside of email.  If it is legit, the action/info will be there, if it 
isn't then the email was bogus.

Beats the hell out of 'viewing source' and having your eyeballs get 
tired trying to read though all the crap those phoney emails have put 
there imo.

-- 
Lloyd

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Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple David Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.mac.com> - 2014-05-03 13:59 -0400
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple billy@MIX.COM - 2014-05-03 19:23 +0000
    Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-05-03 16:10 -0400
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-05-03 16:06 -0400
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-05-03 15:16 -0500
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-03 17:26 -0500
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-05-03 19:10 -0400
    Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-04 12:51 +1200
      Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-04 08:58 -0500
    Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-10 12:39 +0200
      Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-05-10 08:43 -0500
        Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-05-10 11:33 -0400
      Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-11 19:45 +0100

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