Spammer Alert

Over the past week or so I have received a dozen or so emails that had valid classmate addresses showing in the From box.  However, the message in the email raised questions to me regarding who it really came from. Plus, the email usually had a link that the sender wanted me to click on for various reasons. However, none of the reasons seemed legitimate to me.

What this means is that some spammer, or spammers, have gotten the email addresses of some classmates from emails they have sent or forwarded. I’m guessing they got my email address from the class web site because that is the email address they have used to send me stuff.

I’m posting this info to encourage each of you to be as careful as you possibly can in which emails you open, even if it has your best friend’s name on it. If you have a viewer mode in your email program that lets you see the text of the email before you open it, use that viewer to read the email without opening it.

The emails I received are the type “tools” spammers use to gather email addresses for their spamming operations, or to get you to click on a virus infected link. If you get an email and anything at all looks the least bit suspicious, or departs from the norm, don’t open that email. If it supposedly comes from me, or anyone else in the class, it would be worth your time to start a completely new email and ask that classmate if they sent you that email. Even if it take a couple of days to get a response it’s worth the wait.

If you have any questions do let me know. I’ll help if I can.