-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29/01/2020 16.17, James Knott wrote: | On 2020-01-29 06:38 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: |> Please get back to me at your earliest convenience if you receive |> this email. | | When are you supposed to get back if you don't? ;-) | | It does smell like spam though. I see his reply to is different | than his from addresses. That in itself is not a problem but might | be an indicator of spam. Yes, it is a telltale. You see, my first instinct was to respond. Then "... er... wait a second..." The other day I got a spam email that got my first name and that of my friend correct, on a mail account that I seldom use, so I fell for it. It had a link to click (a shortened one) that sent to another site. Immediately Firefox turned red instead of displaying the page and said the site was reported deceptive. Then I looked more attentively at the post and found out it was not really sent by my friend. The bad guys are getting clever and better at this stuff :-( - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXjGvzAAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1VwUAJ9Mme7BgvRItT8/i6nl7N7b0nz6kQCdGCJ3APBOrJX29Yc58enSKRRTDY8= =MyoF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:29:53 -0500 James Knott wrote:

On 2020-01-29 11:16 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The other day I got a spam email that got my first name and that of my friend correct, on a mail account that I seldom use, so I fell for it. It had a link to click (a shortened one) that sent to another site. Immediately Firefox turned red instead of displaying the page and said the site was reported deceptive. Then I looked more attentively at the post and found out it was not really sent by my friend.

The bad guys are getting clever and better at this stuff :-(

I always hover over the links in a suspicious email, to see where they actually go to.

I display plain text by default, so differences are obvious.

  Also, I have 3 email accounts, one is GMail, which I don't use for anything, other than Google stuff.  There is also my old address, from my ISP and my new address in my own domain.  When I see things in either of the 2 older accounts, I get suspicious, as there should be little new email in either.

I just use a different From address for every company I write to. Then I can usually tell if something is wrong. My opensuse subscription predates that policy. But o.o doesn't seem to have sold my address :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org