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Would you click the link?
By: Arks Date: May 17, 2024, 9:48 am
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I wouldn't. I received this email this morning, containing a
link to view the booking details, which are apparently too
complex for them to just type into the email. Pure phishing
expedition!
The "link" I put in below is not a live link. It's just
underlined blue text so you can see what it looked like in the
email I received.
[quote]Greetings,
[my inn name]
It is our pleasure to send this message to your hotel. Do you
have any space available for me and my family to book at your
hotel, View booking details.
I’ll be glad if you can calculate the total sum for the period
of our stay and let me know the types of payment you accept so I
can make the full payment prior to our arrival. I'll be
expecting your reply.
Thanks,
JENNY TACKETT
President, CEO
EAGLES
[/quote]
I did hover over the link to see where it would take me and it
was an address ending in pantheonsite.io
Then I looked up where an ".io" domain would be located and
found this:
[quote].io is a country-code top-level domain name for the
Chagos Archipelago, assigned to the British Indian Ocean
Territory.[/quote]
#Post#: 533--------------------------------------------------
Re: Would you click the link?
By: Thebeachhouse Date: May 17, 2024, 12:59 pm
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No. Never click the link. Plus, we don’t take reservations on
email.
Even the wording sounds fishy.
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Re: Would you click the link?
By: gillumhouse Date: May 17, 2024, 1:22 pm
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I do not click on links unless it is someone I KNOW (and I have
verified by hovering over to see address). You are "correct as
usual King Friday" that this is a sucker email - this one has
not bothered to learn correct English or use AI yet. THEN we
really will need to be on our toes!
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Re: Would you click the link?
By: Arks Date: May 17, 2024, 2:27 pm
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[quote author=gillumhouse link=topic=87.msg534#msg534
date=1715970169]
this one has not bothered to learn correct English or use AI
yet. THEN we really will need to be on our toes!
[/quote]
Oh my, I hadn't thought of using AI to phish or spam or install
malware! We may eventually have to revert back to snail mail for
everything! The cost of postage would put a stop to a lot of
this stuff.
Also, I don't know why somebody, the government or the internet
service providers or somebody, can't come up with a way to
charge for mass emails. Something like, every account gets to
send 100/month free, after that they cost a nickle each, or
whatever. And of course would have to limit how many accounts a
person or company can have.
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Re: Would you click the link?
By: JimBoone Date: May 18, 2024, 6:39 am
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Of course I would click the link, I don't follow links or open
files unless I was expecting such from a friend.
Many days I get multiple such emails a day, most wanting help on
a canceled reservation, they just get marked as spam and move
along.
It's simple to write rules in Outlook or my providers system to
place emails in certain folders. All those little oddball
extensions that spammers use go in a special folder, easier to
delete the junk that way. All the trash offering to sell lists
or Seo services go in a different folder. If the same sender
pops up often, they a different rule just deletes them without
me seeing the email.
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Re: Would you click the link?
By: Arks Date: May 18, 2024, 3:24 pm
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[quote author=JimBoone link=topic=87.msg536#msg536
date=1716032375]
It's simple to write rules in Outlook...
[/quote]
Absolutely! Have lots of rules set in Outlook and it makes a
huge difference.
Among my most useful rules are the ones that save me from any
email mentioning SEO. For some reason I started getting a lot of
spams about electric bicycles, so I created rules that stopped
those. Then there are the ones that say, "Your device and email
has been compromised." All go straight to the Junk folder!
But this AI thing is worrisome, because those may not be so
blatantly obvious as most of the spams we get currently.
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