Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Spam got me...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Matt Ross wrote:

> I'm out sick today, but was feeling well enough to get up for a bit, so
> I thought I'd check email to see if I could do anything from home. Not
> much from work, so I checked my home email using Outlook with Outclass
> (I forgot who suggested Outclass, but it's been very successful). I
> always check to make sure Outclass hasn't mislabled something as spam,
> which it did the first week, but not since, so I was a bit perturbed
> when I saw "Due Balance, payment missed". Not quite thinking, I opened
> it, to find about 20 lines of random words, and an image loading telling
> me about a debt elimination service.
>
> Fortunately, there was no identifier in the image URL, but I do feel
> rather stupid now. Anybody else fall for one like that?


I use Pine under Solaris, so I'm pretty well protected from any such
things.  Outlook is a very high-risk program, it seems.

Mike
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