I kept wondering why that message from Aug. 20 came through again. I
had the hardest time finding the original, so I I was finally able to
click it off, since it did not show when I tried to open the mail.
Marta
On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:
Bernard,
Your message looks like a lot of the spam I get. You did not go into
much detail about why you were sending us a link to a dodgy foreign
retail site.
About a dozen messages like that a week make it through my various
spam filters. They frequently say things like, "Hey, what do you
think about this?" and "Check this out!" and other come-ons
pretending to be from a friend, but not saying enough to identify
themselves one way or the other. They all have two things in common:
not a lot of words and a link to some site trying to sell something.
Anyway, I am sorry that I jumped to conclusions, but, word to the
wise: spend more time explaining why you want us to check out that
site or we (well, I anyway) will dump the message before we get a
few words into it.
If you want an actual answer you need to start such messages by
apologizing for making us look at a cheap, reputation-unknown,
foreign internet retailer. Otherwise, it's spam. And what if that
site had drive-by code in it? All your PC friends might get infected
by it.
Now, to answer your original question: avoid foreign bargain-
basement retail sites. So many are not there to sell you good stuff.
If they sell you anything at all it will not be what you expect.
Many of them are there, though, to harvest credit card information
and to infect PC users who think that anti-virus software actually
protects them.
j.
On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Bernard Griffis
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear MacGroup and Mr Fletcher. I am a real person and I don't know
anything about it being spam. I receive the group email and so I
received the mail I sent and it was clean. This is exactly why I
was not more active in the group.
The site I was asking about markets multiple products and one of
them is Apple. I had been reading about China stealing our
information and building counterfeits. They seem to be too cheap to
be real Apple manufactured products. Sorry, Bernie
With apologies to Mr. Griffis, Marta tells me you are a real
person. I guess a spambot got your address and the address of the
group and spoofed a message from you.
Sorry for doubting your existence.
j.
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