Just a warning re spam email...
Have you been receiving emails faking the "payment notification" subject line? These are the ones that make it look like it's from selling one of your own products, ie: Item #82 Notification of Payment".
I've been receiving these for weeks and always just trashed them after I saw that they were fake. Didn't bother reading, clicking, or anything else. (As I usually do with spam.)
Today, I finally went for the unsubscribe option... Stupid I know. But since I get these on a regular basis, I started to think maybe it was just some idiot who actually thought they could gain your trust and buy their product by faking you into opening the message.
Anyway... When I clicked "unsubscribe" link at the bottom, nothing happened, but I did notice it's entered as a Gmail account. I clicked a second time, thinking maybe I didn't get it right first time, and still nothing happened. So I decided to go to Google and complain about this spam using Gmail.
When I tried to access Google, IE said there was a connection problem. I tried several times and couldn't get into Google - not even Gmail.
So I thought, I wonder if anyone at the Forum has received this email - but I also wanted to see if another site would work in my browser. It didn't. I still got the connection error.
I switched to Firefox and got the same error with Yahoo - and Google - and the Forum.
I gave up, shut everything down and restarted by computer. Fortunately, everything worked fine - at least to the visible eye. Haven't seen anything nasty yet, but I'm holding my breath.
So take this as a warning - as I said it could be coincidence - but it's not worth the risk. Don't click on anything inside one of those fake payment emails. (in case you're dumb enough to try to unsubscribe, like me)
There's been a lot of talk lately by Warriors who don't see anything wrong with using this type of fake subject line. So for those of you who believe this is a good strategy for getting people to open your mail... guess what? It's not.
Pass it on.
Sylvia
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