I've found that having several e-mail accounts allows me to identify the damn-ned processed meat e-mails much more swiftly, and that's because they turn up on each account. Some are easy to spot, such as the banking ones that tell me my account details need updating or that my access has been frozen, when I don't have an account with them anyway. The Halifax e-mailed this morning to tell me my account had been compromised, as did the Abbey and Barclays. Sorry. I don't have accounts there. But more difficult are the ones that are starting to appear as if from a Diocesan office. This is where a second e-mail account comes into its own, for if they appear on there as well, they are going to be malicious. The Mailwasher program is also a boon, allowing me to preview what is on the server with no danger of infection on my terminal.
I am sometimes tempted by the offer of 9 inches in ten minutes, though it's not really neccessary .....
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Nine inches of Spam? Similar to the foot-long hot dog?
ReplyDeleteAnother giveaway, if the email message is apparently from a bank or organization with which one does have an account, is when it is directed to an email address not listed with the supposed sender of the message.
ps and off topic, are you acquainted with Alan Barton's Medieval Ecclesiastical Art blog? If not, you may enjoy it.
ReplyDeletehttp://medieval-church-art.blogspot.com/
I can have my breasts enhanced.
ReplyDeleteWhich I may when that money from the Nigerian orphan from an oil executive's family comes through.
ReplyDeleteGet in the queue for that cash, DP. I replied first! I need liposuction. (I've tried the Dyson and it doesn't work!)
ReplyDeleteI'm now getting "Mail undeliverable" spam seeimgly coming from the Diocese of Oregon. The fact that I haven't written to them sort of gives the game away.
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