As W.C.Fields' sainted father told him, Never give a sucker an even break
or smarten up a chump.
Gary
- Original Message -
From: Arthur Ness [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:14 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: more general scams
I get
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From: Anthony Hind [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Guy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lute List
lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:16 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: more general scams
This is not the same issue, but like many of you, no doubt, I have
received several offers to share
be enough to convince you otherwise!
Charles
-Original Message-
From: gary digman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 August 2008 08:19
To: lutelist
Subject: [LUTE] Re: more general scams
I have not received the UPS thing, but I get emails which are phishing
attempts by individuals
2008 10:50
To: gary digman; lutelist
Subject: [LUTE] Re: more general scams
The number of scam/spam emails is increasing everyday. I get about 250 - 300
spam emails/day in my webmail filter and about half are some form of
'phishing'. There is also the ecard email. A message arrives by email to say
, 2008 3:19 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: more general scams
|I have not received the UPS thing, but I get emails which are phishing
| attempts by individuals purporting to be PayPal. I have forwarded these
| emails to PayPal and they have confirmed that the emails are indeed
attempts
| at phishing. Do
not 100%)
-Original Message-
From: guy_and_liz Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:41 PM
To: 'Lute List'; Denys Stephens
Subject: [LUTE] Re: more general scams
You should always check the actual URL associated with a suspicious link
before you think about
Folks,
If you get an email saying that you have a UPS delivery, and it doesn't
have a tracking number, it's not from UPS. If it does, then you can
check the tracking number on the UPS site and it should have
information you recognize if you initiated the shipping, but at least
an
This is not the same issue, but like many of you, no doubt, I have
received several offers to share with a Nigerian banker the profits
of a person who has just died intestate.
Of course I didn't fall for that. However, a week ago I received a
message purporting to be from UPS about an
Someone on another list I follow got a similar UPS message about a week
ago and his posting prompted this reply from another list member:
When I get something I suspect as spam I copy
and paste a chunk of its text into Google - the result in this case is
at
You were right. That's a scam.
UPS is in the business of delivering physical packages - they would have
left you a note on your door, not an email, if there were an undelivered
package.
This is not the same issue, but like many of you, no doubt, I have
received several offers to share with a
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