Thank you all very much. I am sending this information on to my near and dear who were supposedly the senders as they are naturally quite concerned. You have allayed some of my fears, that I will not receive a cascade of green coffee beans nor have a compromised email. Best wishes, Jennifer
On 10 April 2013 11:21, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: > Hi Jennifer, > > And don't forget: > > Even if the "from" exactly matches one of your actual friends/relatives, it > does not mean that either your or their email accounts have been > compromised > - it is easy to send an email with any "from" address you choose (I > demonstrated this in a WAMUG post quite a while back). > > All it really means is that your friend/relative has had their email > address > "harvested" and included in a list of "real" email addresses for spammers > to > use. Nothing you or they can do about that. > > The problems can arise when you start interacting with these emails: > > If they have an unsubscribe link, clicking on it just confirms that your > email address is "live' you will probably get more spam. > > Clicking on links in these emails can result in downloading nasties or, > more > likely, being taken to dubious websites which try and "spoof" personal info > from you. > > From what you say, I imagine the email was just trying to sell you a green > coffee bean supplement - a fad health/diet supplement - in the same way > that > lots of these scams try and sell us viagra. > > Scambook logs a number of complaints about these emails, check: > <http://www.scambook.com/search/reports/p/1?search=green+coffee&sort=date> > But only if you trust me ;o) > > I would suspect you have nothing to worry about provided you didn't > actually > go ahead and order anything ;o) > > > HTH > > > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: n...@possumology.com > > > > > on 10/4/13 10:40 AM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: > > > Hi Jennifer, check the email address carefully to see if it is indeed > from a > > relative. The SPAM may try to look like it comes from them, but vary very > > slightly. > > > > If the email address is different you just need to move the two emails > into > > your SPAM folder. That will train your email app to do likewise when it > sees > > that address. > > > > If the emails do have the correct addresses that are in your contact > list then > > contact them to ask if they intentionally sent the links. > > > > Then it will be over to the experts if your email has been hacked. I > don't > > know of any solution beyond ditching that email address and starting a > new > > one. > > > > Susan > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > On 10/04/2013, at 9:12 AM, Jennifer Lefroy <lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hello Everyone, > >> > >> I have now had two emails with a link to a site spruiking green coffee > beans. > >> Unfortunately, both seemed to come from relatives who often send links > and I > >> did not check enough before opening. (Don't say it. I know!!) > >> > >> > >> My question is: have two address books coincidentally been used or have > I > >> compromised my own email? If the latter, what do I do? > >> > >> Many thanks, > >> Jennifer > >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > >> Settings & Unsubscribe - > >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > > Settings & Unsubscribe - > > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: n...@possumology.com > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >
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