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Keith, there is a huge uptick of malicious email as of late that is using all kinds of "offers" or "warnings" to get folks to click on links or open attachments. Things like gift cards, loyalty account enhancements, etc. It's all dangerous stuff and should be deleted immediately. Hovering over links is almost always a good clue if you examine the displayed URL carefully...some are very subtle.
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There are lots of similar enterprises such as the one you received. Fake Ebay, fake paypal, fake banking notifications. I also get a lot of phone calls from people claiming that they represent micro-soft and asking me if they can help with my windows problems. Even when I get a legitimate phone call or email, I never, ever give out any information. I insist upon calling the bank or utility on a number that I can trust. It's a shame that this stuff occurs, because I can well imagine older people being victimized by it.
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I got a call about the computer help, and I said: "Really, I don't even have a computer, What one are you talking about?"
The line went dead...
Funny, I don't remember being absent minded...
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I got rid off 99% of phishing and spam emails, by blocking any email that has a address that ends in .top, .download,.xyx,.click and about a dozen others of those new domains All you ever see from them is spam and scams. The only. One that never seems to show up is the .scam domain, but I guess that would be too obvious.
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The really sad part of all of this is that scammers have poisoned the marketing wells.
-- I won't answer the door unless I am expecting someone.
-- I hang up on telemarketers
-- Junk mail doesn't even get opened.
-- I never watch TV live. I only watch from the DVR and skip over commercials.
-- I don't listen to commercial radio (just NPR).
-- email marketing? Forget about it. I read the woodworking stuff (Rockler and Woodpeckers) but the rest goes into the bit bucket.
-- Then there are the surveys. Push pollers ruined those. Those guys won't know what I'm going to do until I do it.
I don't consider myself a hermit. I'm guessing that this is now fairly normal behavior.
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