chemgal
Spam
Posted on: 12/15/2011 11:55
I have a question for all you computer geeks. I recieved a message (in my email, nothing WC related) that looks like spam, but it's possible it's a legit message. The odd thing is that my email address was not used for the message. I suppose someone could have set up a forwarding address with my email but the odd thing is that the recipient email is one based out of the university I am at (and was sent to my hotmail account, not my university one).
Is this a new type of spam, or just an odd coincidence?
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GordW
Posted on: 12/15/2011 12:37
It could also be that one address was put in the "To" field and many more, including yours, in the "BCC" field
I would suspect SPAM myself...
Mendalla
Posted on: 12/15/2011 13:27
I'm with GordW on this one. It's the old trick of putting a dummy address in To: and a bunch of other addresses in blind copy (BCC:). Unless you know the name in the From: field and can confirm with them that they sent it legitimately, off to Deleted Items with it.
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Mendalla
Posted on: 12/15/2011 13:28
And did anyone else start singing the Monty Python "Spam" song when you saw this thread or I am really in need of that vacation I'm leaving for on Monday?
Mendalla
sighsnootles
Posted on: 12/15/2011 13:31
heck, i'm still singing 'spam spam spam spam....', medalla.
nothing to be concerned about.
Northwind
Posted on: 12/16/2011 12:21
I wasn't singing spam, spam, spam, spam until you mentioned it Mendalla.......
chemgal
Posted on: 12/16/2011 12:54
I must have gotten on some kind of list from something university related (which is odd as I would use my university email typically) - I got 2 more today. Thanks for the reminder about the BCC.
Spam spam spam spam...