Greeting Card E-Mail Spoof Alert

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Discussion Overview

The thread discusses experiences with fraudulent greeting card emails that appear to be from legitimate sources. Participants share their encounters with these emails, express concerns about potential viruses, and reflect on their personal rules for handling suspicious messages.

Discussion Character

  • Anecdotal
  • Opinion-based
  • Exploratory

Main Points Raised

  • One participant mentions receiving multiple fraudulent greeting card emails and advises deleting them without opening.
  • Another participant shares their experience of clicking on a suspicious email that appeared to be from a family member but felt uneasy afterward.
  • Several users express frustration with the volume of these emails and the annoyance of dealing with potential viruses.
  • One participant notes that they have received these emails in their junk folder and emphasizes the importance of deleting them.
  • Another participant humorously reflects on the irony of receiving such emails from "classmates" they do not actually communicate with.
  • One user recounts a personal story about their mother's small high school class and the unexpected connections to past classmates.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the need to be cautious with suspicious emails, with many expressing similar experiences of receiving these fraudulent messages. However, there is no clear consensus on the best approach to handle them.

Contextual Notes

The discussion reflects a shared concern among participants about internet fraud and the impact of such scams on personal communication. Experiences vary widely, with some participants feeling more trusting than others.

Who May Find This Useful

This thread may be of interest to members of the consultant community who encounter similar fraudulent emails and wish to share or learn about personal experiences related to online safety.

My mom was opening these and then clicking on "this is spam" button and was wondering why she was getting more and more spam. She thought that it only sent a "signal" back to the spammer if you opened the attachment. I have since corrected her incorrect thinking (gotta love being smarter than mom from time-to-time) and showed her how to use the "this is spam" button BEFORE opening emails. Hopefully the spam level won't continue to rise, but I warned her that her email address is now floating in spammer-central as a good email and she might want to consider changing it.
 
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  • #32
It's a generational thing. She knew more about cassettes than her mother knew, your grandmother knew more about television than her mother did, her mother knew more about radio than her mother did, and her mother knew more about cars than her mother did, and so on.Time and technology marches on. For example, how many grooves does the typical 33-1/3 RPM record have?
 
Record... what's a record?
 
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  • #34
Ask your mother.
 
JUUUUUUUUUUST Kidding... I'm young (no comments from the peanut gallery... I'm not even 35 yet... that is young!), but not THAT young! But, I have no idea how many grooves were in a 33-1/3 RPM record. Please, enlighten me!
 
2 - one on each side!
 
chefann said:
2 - one on each side!
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Ok - that was a hit yourself in the forehead moment for me! Guess only 2 hours of sleep last night have my caught up with me...
Time to go nap!
 
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  • #38
hehehehehe...old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill every time...hehehehehehehe
 
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