Hi Ralf,
yes you are right. I noticed all this before (except the link itself because Android devices use no mouse and the link is not shown in that app). Nevertheless - at the end curiosity won.
And I am not the first one and will not be the last one where this happens.
Since I retired I got at least two phone calls from a "Microsoft technician", several Whats App posts: Hi mum/dad I have a new mobile phone number, some messages
of young ladies, the persons that wants to give me millions of dollars and several other phone attack trials (at least not yet a "shock call from police" that my nephew had an accident and i have to pay money to get him free - this shock call still works fine every day although everyone is warned and bank companies ask their customer when they want a bigger amount of money).
I do not know if there were reports in USA that M$ lost one of its main access keys for the whole MS cloud some months ago - and did not really publish this (I am not happy to be forced to use OneDrive etc.)
Big companies are hacked here every day. Etc. means: I am not alone. Some day they will get you too. There are so many different tricks...
And even if YOU are perfect, others are not. Keep in mind that you have left your email address, paypal account or whatever at douzen of websites,
and some day they can / will be hacked as the admin forgot to run the last updates...
Just for info: I checked my Android with 5 different virus scanners, four say: there is nothing, the fifth (VirusTotal) reports that TrendMicro-HouseCall found several of them. One of the four other Virus scanner apps is TrendMicro... So much about this theme.
Willi
>As for the way how this email is made, well, that is as stated before what makes me wonder on how someone can just click on such a link. "One way link" just doesn't >make any sense in the overall "picture" of the email. So first thing I do before I would even attempt to hover over the link with the mouse, which in my email client will >show me the actual address that link points to. At latest at this point, together with the overall indescriptive email (not counting the apparently badly copied contents of >an half year old email thread), it should be obvious that this is a phishing attempt.
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