it was in response to a W&B message and quoted same, and said here's my presentation. So, I thought it was a W&B presentation...
oh well. seems like I was saved by either MS malware protection, or my 3rd party antivirus. On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 9:44 PM Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote: > Kayak wrote: > > > I started to open the "presentation" on my other account from " > > markpin...@mail.com" and it got thankfully flagged then deleted by my > > malware protection. > > Any email that simply starts with something like "click on this link" > without further explanation is not something I'd ever touch, so I didn't > bother alerting anybody because it was clear that it was potentially > dangerous. It probably wasn't anything that Mark Pinson actually sent. > It could easily be sent from elsewhere with the return address > "spoofed" as Mark Pinson's (that's easy to do with most email clients), > or he could have malware that used his address book to get the krnet > address and past email content to fabricate the spoofed email. Another > clue should have been that it came from an old KRnet email, originally > written in 2018. Very few people would have replied to an email from 2018. > > Bottom line is don't click on any link that comes with no supporting > reason as to why you'd want to open it, and even then, be > skeptical....hover your mouse over it and see where the link leads > (although that's often no clue either). A lot of mail in my inbox > remains "unread", but so far I've never been infected via email....that > I know of! > > This wasn't the first KRnet email to have a malicious link, and it won't > be the last. Stay vigilant.... > > Mark Langford > m...@n56ml.com > http://www.n56ml.com > Huntsville, AL > ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
