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entwisi · 13-12-2005, 08:32

Gayle, There is no reason why you can't forward an email without downloading the images. The email they sent you is just HTML. it contains only links to their images. You are perectly correct in not downloading teh images as they use a unique ID in the links that tells them which email address is 'calling home' they then know that it is a valid used address and they sell it on to all and sundry.

The best way to stop all this is as I mentioned in the last post about scam emails is to only ever view(AND SEND!!!!) email in plain text. You can force your email client to do this in the tools, options facility.

13-12-2005, 08:32	#7
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Beware - Ebay scam Gayle, There is no reason why you can't forward an email without downloading the images. The email they sent you is just HTML. it contains only links to their images. You are perectly correct in not downloading teh images as they use a unique ID in the links that tells them which email address is 'calling home' they then know that it is a valid used address and they sell it on to all and sundry. The best way to stop all this is as I mentioned in the last post about scam emails is to only ever view(AND SEND!!!!) email in plain text. You can force your email client to do this in the tools, options facility.