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Tricky spammers!

Submitted by Brandon on June 17, 2008 - 9:04am.
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I just received a tricky junk e-mail. It was addressed as a reply to someone else with my CCed on the message, and it referenced a previous e-mail that I had never seen – one that was, of course, part of the message. It was such confusing e-mail that I had to read through it at least a sentence or two just to make sure it wasn’t an e-mail that I was expecting.

Those tricky spam e-mailers are getting better at their jobs, and that’s not good for the rest of us.


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Haven't you heard the warning not to open e-mails if you don't know who they're from? You could have a virus now!


Submitted by Ruth Anne Maddox on June 17, 2008 - 1:38pm.

Well, I didn’t actually...

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Brandon's picture

Well, I didn’t actually open the e-mail – I previewed it in Outlook. Besides, I believe my computer has a relatively good virus scanning program and I know I’ve seen this junk e-mailer before without any major problems.


Submitted by Brandon on June 18, 2008 - 8:46am.

All the time, newspaper...

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All the time, newspaper employees, especially editors, get e-mails from people they don't know. I open all kinds of suspicious-looking e-mails, only to find out they are from a public-relations person who doesn't know how to keep his e-mails from looking like SPAM. A necessary evil of the trade, I think.

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)


Submitted by Mathias Baden on June 19, 2008 - 12:11pm.

Brandon, even previewing an...

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Kyle Thill's picture

Brandon, even previewing an email is enough to launch the nasties, turn off your preview pane and keep your subscription to that virus program current and update often.


Submitted by Kyle Thill on June 20, 2008 - 3:29am.

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