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appreciate the heads up!

Thanks for the warning.

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Originally Posted by Rose_P

Thanks for the head's up.

BTW, we might be neighbors. Are you in WAQG?!

Guess I'm not in WAQG - since I have no idea what that is...
I'm in Spring, Tx. Closer to the Woodlands. What is WAQG

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Originally Posted by thepolyparrot

It isn't that the sites are hacked, it's that a bot has grabbed someone's name and email address off of the web - or off of an email that's been forwarded to a million people.

The address and name have been pasted into a spam email or other and sent to a billion other email addresses.

The website that they refer to actually exists, so that lends credence to the preposterous stories. People do actually fall for this, so spammers occasionally make a sale or collect a donation.

Frequently enough to be rewarding - they don't even seem to be bothered by fines or the constant inconvenience of having to change domain registrations and web hosting.

If no one ever, ever, EVVVVVVVER bought anything that was advertised to them through a spam email, spammers would stop making money and our inboxes would be ours again. :)

But until then, the crooks find it much too lucrative to give up, so we just have to deal with the deluge of stupid stuff like this. :?

The sites, themselves, are safe, so don't worry about going there. It's just the emails that are annoying and possibly contain web bugs or worse.

How do we know the sites are safe? It says it's a part of Handi-quilter.com but they have no idea what it is. They have to be going into handi-quilter.com to retrieve any emails they get....

Actually, the emails are faked with html so that they look like the reply to address is one thing, but the real address it goes to is another.

The links to the sites in this type of email can be links to the genuine site or they can be faked links to phishing sites.

If you go to the genuine site from your own list of favorites or by typing in the address of the site, you'll be safe.

Just never click on a spammer's link.

If you can set up your email program to not even display images, that would be best, because then the "invisible" web bugs that the spammer writes into his spam won't "phone home" and confirm that your email address is a live one.

Having good anti-virus and internet security can protect you from most of the stuff that's out there, so if your anti-v is up to date and your security settings are high enough, you really don't have to worry - just be aware. :)