Are You in the 51 Percent Club? - Comments Page 1

I received an unsolicited email from what looked like UPS offering me a $90 gift certificate if I answered a survey. It was a phishing email. It contained their logo, but the sending address wasn't from UPS.

I be thinking the problem starts with "...Facebook account from a Samsung S10..."; and not at the 51% email malware club.
Similar analogy to whether the finger, the gun, or the bullet is at fault.

My (non-gMail) email account is provisioned with "Remote images blocked to protect your privacy. Load images?" warning upon opening an email. I am not certain if this is a relevant feature...

I ALWAYS check the return address now, go directly to the site (firm, person, whatever), and so on. At least 15 years ago (maybe 20, maybe ?) when I was young(er) and more gullible, I got an email sending me vacation pictures from a rather distant "relative". (I have many.) You guessed it. They shanghaied my email to send spam. So I'm a member of the club.

is it helpful to send the phishing email to the company that it says it is. for example: i got a phishing ermail today saying i need to upgraqde my xfinity for security reasons .... click here. i usually copy the "phony" email and send it to , in the this case ....... abuse@comcast.net
are the security people able to use the information in the email to track down and stop the spammers? or am i just wasting my time?

Every day is too much.

Cheers,
sky

Your site includes a captive popup to "Click on allow to subscribe to notifications" This sure looks like a bogus link. These captive popups, popups that can not be dismissed, are becoming much more common. Shame on you!

It is SO easy to avoid these. First, most should be in your spam folder, but those that are not, well, just hover your cursor on the address - it will look like what Bob highlighted above, NOT who it claims to be from. No reputable company EVER asks you for login information in an email. This isn't rocket science. If you've a loved one who falls for such things, it may be time to consider monitoring their online time.

JOHN KWARCINSKI -- They need the FULL e-mail, including headers, to do anything. In Yahoo you can open (I think it says 'view raw message') the header that has ALL the data they need to track the e-mail back to it's source. (you read it from BOTTOM TO TOP - meaning that the origin is at the bottom, and the destination is at the top). It generally has the IP addresses of EVERY computer it passes through and that helps Comcast in this case trace the e-mail back to it's originating computer. You might try to FORWARD the e-mail to Comcast rather than just copy it.

The fraudsters are getting - smarter - isn't the best word to use, but their efforts are looking more and more like the real thing; they're spelled correctly, the grammar is correct, making it a little more difficult to detect them. I had one today purporting to be a delivery notification from one of my regular electronic supply houses - and it looked pretty good - except that it was for something I'd never order, charged to a non-existent credit card - and my last order was a year ago. Even the originating address in the email looked plausible until I checked the company's CS email. Still, if it turns out to be a mistake, I'll get some bits and pieces I never ordered, and don't need - then I'll contact the company. Come to think of it, I'll still drop them a line to let them know about somebody taking their name in vain.

A lot of scammer spammers use logos of big tech companies, i.e. Microsoft, Amazon, Xfinity, Norton-Lifelock, Google, etc., to scam recipients into believing the email is from the real company. All, they do is a search for the corporate logo of their choice, and paste it into their message to fool a gullible reader.

Also, many scammers use the the names of several nationally-known bank to announce that they have received a charge for some particular high-priced merchandise, and ask the recipient to call a phone number to verify the faux purchase, hoping it may be a bank that the recipient has an account with. I've received several from one of those well-known banks, which I know is a fraud, as they do not have any brick-and-mortar presence in my neck of the woods, nor do I have any accounts with that bank.

It is so easy to contact the alleged originator of the email and check with them whether they actually sent it.

Might I suggest that you have a look at DuckDuckGo as a replacement search engine for Google/Bing/ etc. It has saved my life a number of times !!!

I have been receiving spam emails addressed to my first name, repeated and .com. they must be going to every Sandy in the world. So many if them coming in to my 'spare' gmail email. I thought gmail filtered these out.

In regards to the email about pop-ups. They are not on my computer. When I open my mail and click on Bob, I get the series of swirling dots where the pic should be. Either your browser settings are not set right or you are using a google (ugggh) browser. Try firefox. it stops ALL pop-ups.

I got one yesterday from President Biden asking if I would be willing to serve in his cabinet as Secretary of Computer Technology. You bet I jumped on that one real fast. I start work next week.

I have several spoof @ addresses..if i get a paypal bill-- (ie) that is not sent from paypal.. i forward the email to paypal..(or costco or spectrum--ie spoof@costco.com) --then i delete the initial email and usually, the offended party: paypal--costco.--etc. responds to me to beware that email... I check the source of the sending email...if it says paypal.com then it is probably legitimate but if it says adpromoters.com--it is most likely a spoof email

Most important: hover your arrow icon over the sender. If that little window that pops up does not show the same address as from the purported sender do not click. Even the "unsubscribe" will put you in a bad place. And African princes or Bill Gates never want to send you money.

I received an e-mail message from an film organization that I have belonged to for years.They were asking for an renewal from me,but when I looked at the address it came from,I got suspicious.The organization's address ended in .com instead of .org.

All the information provided looked legit,but the .com ending didn't look right to me.I did not respond to it.It might have been an error on the sender's part,but I wasn't going to take a chance

White characters on the light blue background in the comment section is hard on my eyes.

I laugh when people mention a spam e-mail. I have an old email address that I don't use anymore. When I started using the internet, I didn't know better and signed up for anything and actually opened spam. I think last count that email account had about 75,000 spam messages in it.

Someone mentioned a notification request on here. I'm guessing that is the one legit thing happening. I just tell it "Later" as there was not an option for never. If I felt I needed notifications daily, I'd say yes and believe it to be fine. With security I have, (mainly my own suspicion and working with other people's computers and seeing millions of the most annoying malware/adware/spyware, I have a fairly good sense. Even with that experience, I've been either tired or dumb enough on a given day to forget to uncheck a box someplace and inadvertently have a new program. However, I notice immediately, I check my task manager every few hours (I know. Seems too much but actually, once you get accustomed to what usually shows up there, it is actually fairly easy to spot a 'unique' player in town. Often it is from a legit program that added a different kind of self-updater or something. Personally, I even turn those off at startup unless I want them to update. I'm on a Mac but do the same thing if I ever go over to the Microsoft Windows machine. Actually, I purchased a gaming desktop a year ago and haven't hooked it up yet because I know I'm going to be ticked with the junk Microsoft loves to put in their OS these days, which I actually consider Windows 10 the biggest Adware/spyware in itself these days. Microsoft lovers will have to admit the same thing if they are honest with themselves. Do a Netstat in command line or ask yourself how they can have a 'recommended apps' function and such. There are ways to turn off the myriad junk that communicates with the net on Win 10 but Microsoft has made it tough to turn off regular updates so the next time a big one comes through, the settings I like are miraculously changed back to their defaults. I won't go into those settings because, like I said, they figured out a way to stay in control. Hmm. I was going to mention something political but I shall restrain myself as somehow there are people who will find a way to 'logically' argue for the direction the world is 'advancing.' Moderator, if you feel that needs to be edited out, I will not feel offended. : )

I thought of something. Actually, Microsoft users, please don't be offended. I have now finally come to the conclusion that all the major OS are doing or moving towards the same thing. The cool thing, on my Mac, I have avoided updates for about 6 months without having to 'mess with the OS.' However, I'm completely tied into their App Store. I also realize that by avoiding their updates I'm partially opening myself to other threats. Makes me chuckle. It's really that the true enemy built my house and gave themself a key to get in whenever they want. If I play nice they won't burn my place down. [ Horrific analogy but.... smile, we're taken care of, right? : ) ] Android, Chrome OS all doing the same thing. In fact, I'm starting to trust Microsoft more than Google and Apple because as far as I know, they don't try to destroy competition that pops up on the scene and they don't hand over information to the Government as whilly nilly as Google. It's my own fault for liking Google products knowing that "Free" is absolutely never free! Never in the tech world anyway from what I've seen through the small history I've lived. Ok. Off my soap box. Need to breath. Next step, but dreading the amount of things I'll need to change, go completely to Linux/ Open Source. Even two years ago, I'd agree my choice to do so entailed a little paranoia. These days, if you read enough, you know it is possible that a day will come when our words will be used against us. Already, I was stopped from sending a supposedly 'secure message' in Facebook Messenger. I know. Why would I ever assume within that 'Free' social platform things would ever be truly secure? Granted, I'm nearly 100% sure it was not a human involved; just a bot doing its job of altering reality for the benefit of its owner in the big tech world, which has somehow become ok or at least not raised enough eyebrows to actually be stopped. I know or believe being on Facebook is like handing all my personal information over to a foreign entity, but the service is so easy to use, interesting, lets me connect with old friends and I don't have the energy to change it seems. Hmmm.

If you need to shorten this or edit it, I completely understand. Went from spam to something else I guess.

Kenny D. you can change the browser font color in your browser settings most likely. Mine shows black font on blue background.