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dotti34 · 02-01-2021, 07:20

On the subject of scams, something else that we have to be aware of is that not all emails are actually from the person whose name appears on them as the sender.

I know most are legit but if you get one from someone that maybe you haven’t heard from for a while, or don’t hear from often, just be cautious. I have had several. For example, the other day I received an email supposedly from a man I haven’t corresponded with for 12 years. We were in touch over some family research at the time but exhausted whatever information we could help each other with and that was the end of the emailing between us.

For me to get an email from him out of the blue like that somehow didn’t stack up and so I checked the remainder of the email address and sure enough it was not his and so must have been a scam of sorts – so I deleted it without opening it up. I did let him know that it looked as though someone had obtained email addresses from his contacts – so far haven’t had a reply, poor man probably thinks my email was a scam also….

It is a nuisance but worth the short time it takes to check if at all uncertain as we do have to be very careful not to get caught by scammers, who will try anything they can to infiltrate computing devices. My sister-in-law, who is an intelligent woman, fell for a scam on her computer and it caused no end of bother and distress.

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dotti34 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,189 Blog Entries: 80 Liked: 1480 times Rep Power: 833512	Re: You have an unread message. On the subject of scams, something else that we have to be aware of is that not all emails are actually from the person whose name appears on them as the sender. I know most are legit but if you get one from someone that maybe you haven’t heard from for a while, or don’t hear from often, just be cautious. I have had several. For example, the other day I received an email supposedly from a man I haven’t corresponded with for 12 years. We were in touch over some family research at the time but exhausted whatever information we could help each other with and that was the end of the emailing between us. For me to get an email from him out of the blue like that somehow didn’t stack up and so I checked the remainder of the email address and sure enough it was not his and so must have been a scam of sorts – so I deleted it without opening it up. I did let him know that it looked as though someone had obtained email addresses from his contacts – so far haven’t had a reply, poor man probably thinks my email was a scam also…. It is a nuisance but worth the short time it takes to check if at all uncertain as we do have to be very careful not to get caught by scammers, who will try anything they can to infiltrate computing devices. My sister-in-law, who is an intelligent woman, fell for a scam on her computer and it caused no end of bother and distress.