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We get it all the time - mostly weight loss pills, and things like that. When we receive an Email from someone we know and there is just a line of numbers and letters, we delete it. We definitely don't open it.
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I haven't gotten any of those but I do get spam e-mails supposedly from myself, with my e-mail address as the sender, so I can't block them.
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Have you contacted the member? They may not know that they were hacked
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They are not hacked, the emails are ‘spoofing’ the ‘from’ name to make them look legitimate. This is very common and is meant to fool the recipient into thinking the email is legitimate. But if you look closely at the email header, you will see it did not actually come from the person that is named or the domain that it supposedly came from.
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Yup -
I get these every once in a while as well....
....just something you ignore, really...
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In the spirit of 'due diligence' I used to warn my friends that their email accounts had been hacked.
Gave that up years ago, as a futile endeavor...
About a year ago, the password to my email account was hacked, and until I changed it, there was evidence that my account was being used to send hundreds of emails to God-knows-who.
-Paul
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Can be a scarey thing..i always wonder if there was an original message from the sending id. These spams all seem to originate from folks in the stamp collecting community.
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The email(s) never came from the person’s email account; that is not how it works. They do not hack an email account and then send email off of it; they are only looking to use your name/email address fool (spoof) the recipient into trusting the email.
The best analogy is to think of emails as letters. If I wanted you to trust and open a malicious letter I am going to send to you, I would make the envelope look like one of your friends had sent it to you. The first thing I would do is write your friends name and return address on the envelope. Most people would fall for this and open the letter. Sharp-eyed people might notice that the postmark is not from a post office that matches the return address, others might notice the mismatch and open it anyway.
Opening emails that you did not expect even if they look like they came from a friend (especially those with attachments) is a risk. It is always wise to pick up the phone and call the person before opening an unexpected email. It is paramount to only open email with attachments after verifying.
Yes, this is a pain and consumes a bit of your time; but it is far less costly than having all your files encrypted and then held for ransom or having to clean malware off your computers.
For the reason listed above, you should never, ever post your email address on a website. The quickest way to check to see if your email address is posted anywhere on the internet is to use Google. Simply search using quotes around your email address (i.e. "joestamper@nowhere.com") and see if Google finds anything.
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and they do the same things with robocalls. They will spoof an exchange local to you or a random one from anywhere in the country to get you to answer it. Don't answer, they never leave a message.
I notice lately I'm getting them from my same cell phone exchange. A while back I got a call from a guy with the same cell phone exchange as me screaming at me for repeatedly calling his number and not leaving a message. I explained the deal to him.
There's no blocking the email addy or phone numbers because they'll be spoofing another one next time.
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In the past two or three days i have received emails from two friends on Stamporama. When i try to open and read them it is just spam advertising. Is anyone else getting this sort of thing ? phil
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I haven't gotten any of those but I do get spam e-mails supposedly from myself, with my e-mail address as the sender, so I can't block them.
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Have you contacted the member? They may not know that they were hacked
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They are not hacked, the emails are ‘spoofing’ the ‘from’ name to make them look legitimate. This is very common and is meant to fool the recipient into thinking the email is legitimate. But if you look closely at the email header, you will see it did not actually come from the person that is named or the domain that it supposedly came from.
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Yup -
I get these every once in a while as well....
....just something you ignore, really...
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In the spirit of 'due diligence' I used to warn my friends that their email accounts had been hacked.
Gave that up years ago, as a futile endeavor...
About a year ago, the password to my email account was hacked, and until I changed it, there was evidence that my account was being used to send hundreds of emails to God-knows-who.
-Paul
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re: Spam from Stamporama member ID's
Can be a scarey thing..i always wonder if there was an original message from the sending id. These spams all seem to originate from folks in the stamp collecting community.
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re: Spam from Stamporama member ID's
The email(s) never came from the person’s email account; that is not how it works. They do not hack an email account and then send email off of it; they are only looking to use your name/email address fool (spoof) the recipient into trusting the email.
The best analogy is to think of emails as letters. If I wanted you to trust and open a malicious letter I am going to send to you, I would make the envelope look like one of your friends had sent it to you. The first thing I would do is write your friends name and return address on the envelope. Most people would fall for this and open the letter. Sharp-eyed people might notice that the postmark is not from a post office that matches the return address, others might notice the mismatch and open it anyway.
Opening emails that you did not expect even if they look like they came from a friend (especially those with attachments) is a risk. It is always wise to pick up the phone and call the person before opening an unexpected email. It is paramount to only open email with attachments after verifying.
Yes, this is a pain and consumes a bit of your time; but it is far less costly than having all your files encrypted and then held for ransom or having to clean malware off your computers.
For the reason listed above, you should never, ever post your email address on a website. The quickest way to check to see if your email address is posted anywhere on the internet is to use Google. Simply search using quotes around your email address (i.e. "joestamper@nowhere.com") and see if Google finds anything.
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re: Spam from Stamporama member ID's
and they do the same things with robocalls. They will spoof an exchange local to you or a random one from anywhere in the country to get you to answer it. Don't answer, they never leave a message.
I notice lately I'm getting them from my same cell phone exchange. A while back I got a call from a guy with the same cell phone exchange as me screaming at me for repeatedly calling his number and not leaving a message. I explained the deal to him.
There's no blocking the email addy or phone numbers because they'll be spoofing another one next time.
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