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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1876623" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>This is a bit tricky. In the 2 emails apps I use (Apple Mail, and Thunderbird)...sometimes you can see the email address of the sender...but many times not....and for those spammers that are actually trying to "mimic" real legit websites...it's much harder to know if they are legit or not (legit email address) without actually reading the email.</p><p></p><p>Not every spam/junk email is setup to give feedback to the sender (if you click on & read an email)...I only mentioned this possibility as a precaution to consider when deciding to look or not look at suspicious looking emails.</p><p></p><p>Many of the spam/junk emails I get are clearly spam/junk...based on the emails title/subject or the "From"...and these are the emails I never open. I right-click on them...and send them to the trash or Junk folder without ever opening them.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand...as you mentioned...there are those emails where a spammer/scammer is trying to pretend to be a legit website (such as pretending to be Apple...or your bank...or something else financial or official). In these cases you may need to actually read/view the email to check the senders email address (to confirm if they're legit or not). Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.</p><p></p><p>In this case (when you must view an email you suspect is pretending to a legit business or government agency)...the cardinal rule is...if the email itself pretty much looks legit (but the senders email address doesn't make sense)...then you can pretty much be sure it's a scam email. In this case never click on links in the email...and <strong>never never never</strong> download any attachments from one of these scam emails (since you never know what might get installed).</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1876623, member: 56379"] This is a bit tricky. In the 2 emails apps I use (Apple Mail, and Thunderbird)...sometimes you can see the email address of the sender...but many times not....and for those spammers that are actually trying to "mimic" real legit websites...it's much harder to know if they are legit or not (legit email address) without actually reading the email. Not every spam/junk email is setup to give feedback to the sender (if you click on & read an email)...I only mentioned this possibility as a precaution to consider when deciding to look or not look at suspicious looking emails. Many of the spam/junk emails I get are clearly spam/junk...based on the emails title/subject or the "From"...and these are the emails I never open. I right-click on them...and send them to the trash or Junk folder without ever opening them. On the other hand...as you mentioned...there are those emails where a spammer/scammer is trying to pretend to be a legit website (such as pretending to be Apple...or your bank...or something else financial or official). In these cases you may need to actually read/view the email to check the senders email address (to confirm if they're legit or not). Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. In this case (when you must view an email you suspect is pretending to a legit business or government agency)...the cardinal rule is...if the email itself pretty much looks legit (but the senders email address doesn't make sense)...then you can pretty much be sure it's a scam email. In this case never click on links in the email...and [B]never never never[/B] download any attachments from one of these scam emails (since you never know what might get installed). - Nick [/QUOTE]
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