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I have received some from banks I've never had accounts at but more worrisome are the ones from ebay and paypal. I've never had accounts with them and it makes me wonder if someone is using my e-mail address.
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I have received some from banks I've never had accounts at but more worrisome are the ones from ebay and paypal. I've never had accounts with them and it makes me wonder if someone is using my e-mail address.
They're just phishing. Either they get your email address from bots that run around the net looking for email addresses or they just generate random addresses and if you open the email and they have some kind of html in there they track you down that way. More than likely ebay and paypal have nothing to do with it. They're just spoofing the ebay or paypal email address.
So far I haven't found any email client that lets me use tsuwm's trick.
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>So far I haven't found any email client that lets me use tsuwm's trick.
I think I specified methods for Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird (not that I'd even heard of the latter before).
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It works perfectly well, Tsuwm. I tried it out on a forward in Outlook and got the information :source unknown. It may have been innocent but I was 't interested in the subject anyway and threw it away. Thanks.
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FWIW, Mozilla Thunderbird blocks inline HTML images when click on and look at an email, unless you specifically allow it to show them to you.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Since one help has already been offered, may I ask for some? Since I got my new computer with Windows XP, most of my e-mails show in my In-box as having attachments even when they don't (such as ones I've sent myself, for ex.). My computer guy says he doesn't know why. Does anyone here, and is there something I can do to get rid of these false signs?
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Not sure it applies, Jackie, but do you use "stationery" or background of some kind for your e-mail? I've noticed on some incoming messages that that shows up as an attachment.
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I've had that in the past, Nancy--it seemed to occur when the receiving computer couldn't "read" it; it would be an actual attachment: a tiny little picture of the stationery. What's happening now is that a message in my in-box will have the little paper clip beside it, but there is no attachment. And it slows me down, because I'm afraid to simply open the message and read it. Thanks, though!
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>right-clicking e-mails
Hm. It works on a Mac too. Only instead of right-click, you ctrl-click.
Now I never need to face the agonising struggle between naive curiosity and fear of viruses when I receive e-mails that begin: "You have won!"
(Am I the only Mac user on AWADtalk?)
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>(Am I the only Mac user on AWADtalk?) nope!
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