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[butterfly123]

@dooBdoo

Thank you. You are very kind.

[on the bay]

@Spurt

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@Spurt wrote:

@on the bay 

Here's a good You Tube Video and article from a university about phising that provides additional info...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs2Hk8dctDQ

https://kb.iu.edu/d/arsfhttps://kb.iu.edu/d/arsf

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0003-phishing#report%20phishing%20emailshttps://www.consumer.f...

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thank you too SPURT!

[handygal2]

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@dooBdoo wrote:

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@on the bay wrote:

@dooBdoo@handygal2~

Hi! I have a question.

If you forward the spam to the spam@uce don't you have to open the email to forward it?

Sometimes when I get a spam to my spam box, I hover over the "fake sender" and you can see the real email which usually is some weird, long type of email. I write it down and then go to my privacy settings and add it to my blocked emails.

I never open these emails, they do go automatically to the spam folder but I hate to even see them in my spam folder at all! I don't know how they get emails and it doesn't seem to help to change the password or the email!

When I see the spam email, and delete it from my spam folder, I can see part of the subject line. It makes me mad.

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           Hi, @on the bay!   Yes, unfortunately they do want to see the complete email message -- and, as I said, also the full header info.   Otherwise, the message won't be useful.   So, they present us with a dilemma.  I don't receive much spam.   I only forward those which clearly are a sophisticated spoof/phish impersonating a company.   Otherwise, I use the "report phishing" feature in the email provider software, then I block the sender, then "delete forever" the message. 

         In my experience, some providers are much better than others at stopping junk mail before we ever see it -- Gmail does a good job, for example, but Hotmail/Outlook and MSN.com accounts are pretty bad.

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@on the bay: @dooBdoo said it well. I open the emails, to forward the entire content to the government spam site. I never reply to them or open any links. Then l immediately delete. (I use gmail on an iPad).

[dooBdoo]

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@butterfly123 wrote:

@dooBdoo

Thank you. You are very kind.

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❤️@butterfly123

[dooBdoo]

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@Spurt wrote:

@on the bay 

Here's a good You Tube Video and article from a university about phising that provides additional info...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs2Hk8dctDQ

https://kb.iu.edu/d/arsfhttps://kb.iu.edu/d/arsf

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0003-phishing#report%20phishing%20emailshttps://www.consumer.f...

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          Great links, @Spurt!  Thanks!  (Sending good vibes to you and your tuxies!❤️)