Evil Spammers in the world

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Is this spam? I just got it this morning. Thanksgiving is long over with!!!

"As Thanksgiving nears we want to advise you that our online shop has an order addressed to you. You may pick it in any store of Target.com closest to you within four days.

Please, open the link for full order information.

Always yours,
Target.com "

I have never ordered from Target in my life. Well, I did order some cat food from Amazon.com almost a year ago. It was shipped from a Target store in Texas. The wording of this seems odd to me. Besides we have no Target store here or any where close to here. Sounds phishie to me. sheesh

Not gonna click on the link just in case!

[Karen]

Is this spam? I just got it this morning. Thanksgiving is long over with!!!

"As Thanksgiving nears we want to advise you that our online shop has an order addressed to you. You may pick it in any store of Target.com closest to you within four days.

Please, open the link for full order information.

Always yours,
Target.com "

I have never ordered from Target in my life. Well, I did order some cat food from Amazon.com almost a year ago. It was shipped from a Target store in Texas. The wording of this seems odd to me. Besides we have no Target store here or any where close to here. sheesh

Not gonna click on the link just in case!

Absolutely - I get things like that from the UPS store, and Fedex, and am still getting lots of "Your Recent Walgreens visit" ones!

[phesina]

I get lots of "spam alert" and "over-usage" messages from "AOL" (the real AOL is my e-mail service) sent from gmail accounts and such, complete with bad grammar and spelling.

[pomtzu]

[QUOTE=momoffuzzyfaces;2511978]Is this spam? I just got it this morning. Thanksgiving is long over with!!!

"As Thanksgiving nears we want to advise you that our online shop has an order addressed to you. You may pick it in any store of Target.com closest to you within four days.

Please, open the link for full order information.

Always yours,
Target.com "

I have never ordered from Target in my life. Well, I did order some cat food from Amazon.com almost a year ago. It was shipped from a Target store in Texas. The wording of this seems odd to me. Besides we have no Target store here or any where close to here. Sounds phishie to me. sheesh

Not gonna click on the link just in case![/QUOT





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I got one similar to this in my morning mail. It was from Walgreen's, and I had an e-gift waiting at the store. Just click the link for instructions on how to retrieve it.

Yeah - sure. And did you know too, that pigs fly?????????????? I should stop by the W in town next time I go by there, and ask them where my gift is. Gee - wouldn't you think that they would have called my phone, or just snail mailed it to me, since they have that info on file in the pharmacy department?????

[Randi]

To all of you! Whatever great offers you get from ANYONE, don't ever open the link. If you feel unsure about something, look up the company, give them a ring and ask!

Once you click on a link, they'll know the e-mail address is valid.

[smokey the elder]

Another thing to be cautious of: a link that supposedly comes from someone on your contact list. This is often malware. Contact them with a fresh email and ask if they sent it; if not advise them to change their password. My account gets hacked if I don't change may password often enough and I get email like, "did you send me this real estate link?" and it's a big fat NO. And I go change my password!

[pomtzu]

I get one every so often, that appears that it is from my granddaughter's other grandmother, since she is on my contact list. It's a strange and bizarre mail and I know it's not from her. I mailed her about it after the first one, but evidently she did nothing about it, since I got another several months later. Oh well...

And opening links - doesn't happen with me. I'm leery about opening ANY - even ones on here - and definitely ones on FB.

[momcat]

If something sounds too good to be true - it most likely is not

[Karen]

Okay, spammers are getting more and more creative - American Idol season is beginning - so now there are ones promising to teach you how to sing, or improve your singing!!!! And more evil options - stopping tintinitus, restoring hearing loss - things medical science either does not know how to do much of the time (for the former) or has so many causes, some completely untreatable (the latter). As Baby Boomers age I expect more arthritis spam to begin to appear ...