When you get a suspect email (and I would suspect this one!), right click on it and a little window will pop up. Select "View Message Source". You can pretty well tell from that if an email is bogus or bonafide, if you have the patience to sort through all the gibberish. The first thing that caught my attention from yours is "ibermail" - that would be coming from Spain or Portugal (the Iberian peninsula). Unless you can verify that Konstantin has relocated to Spain, I think I'd consign it to junk mail. Better safe than sorry!

I have had a similar experience with an email from Chase bank and didn't look like my regular notices and customer service had me forward it to them - it was spam.

yes mine too, the link is: http://ar.quiltedparadise.com/st-39394-5829

But how wonderful that we are watching out for one another and calling the alert when something seems not as it should be. We were lucky that all is well. Such is not always the case! Thank you so much for calling our attention, and to patrice for checking it out for us.

I opened it and it brought me to here!

Mine looks like this except it only has "Link," not a full www. address. Received today's message board really late!

I always have mine by 7:30 am but today it is 3:45 pm. Strange

Mine look the same also (except for the first link). Also my name is in the greeting. (I had to look hard to see the difference) Good Catch!!

My Konstatin used be here every AM like clockwork. Now It showes up sometime between 1 and 5PM. If I'm searching for any fabric posting by the time I get it they're already gone.

Nothing like I have ever received.

This is very similar to what I got last night except mine was listed as "Leisure" then had the Konstantin name further down. I too really hesitated and didn't open it for fear of being hacked. Hacking appears to be pretty bad right now from what I'm hearing.

i got one like that but deleted it

Mine don't look like that either.

This is what i appreciate about this site. Thanks from me too.

Good thing you noticed and thought to ask. I wouldn't open it either. Ya got to be so careful now days.

that's easy to fix. don't wait for the digest. just come straight to the board, log in, and cruise around to see what's going on in any section. :-)

Thanks everyone I did delete it and got my newsletter late yesterday afternoon but got todays right on time about 5 am

Have not received one like that. Thanks for the warning to watch out for it. I would definitely not click on the links.

Aint that the truth....:)

Mine have never looked like this either. Thanks for the heads up...

From IB-Angel (Internet Brands - owner of QuiltingBoard on another IB owned board whose members also received the quilting email - which is pretty funny.)

"We are aware of the e-mail being discussed. This one-time e-mail was sent in error, and precautions have been taken to prevent an occurrence like this from happening again. Your e-mail address has not been compromised.

We apologize for the inconvenience. "


Earlier, they didn't have an explantion but I guess on further investigation, they found out they were, in fact, the source.

I don't know if the sending of the email to that membership was done at the same time as the one to the QB members.

If you had done a whois on the the link in the original email, it linked right back an IB domain.

there are NEW OWNERS????? When did this happen and will everything stay the same? WHY new owners?

I don't know about new owners but I know they hired a new computer person. There was a goodbye thread to Konstantin a few months ago. Since everything is still coming in with his name on it, I don't think the new tech person changed that yet.

gee i got one like that too 2 days ago ,that has never happended before

Our board is now owned by Internet Brands. There will be a few changes, but almost entirely behind the scenes.

the transition started more than a month ago. the fact that so many people never noticed is proof that we will still be "us". :-) :-) :-)

Thanks for the info. I got the flu in January and had it for over a month. I nearly died from it and am still very weak and lost my hearing in one ear. I haven't been on the computer - let alone on the board until this week. I didn't try to keep up with past posts. Glad things will be the same. Thanks again for the info.

I got this one too. Ended up hitting 'report spam'.