[Vhfcn-l] Hacker or phishing emails?

[Jerry Feldman]

This is a classic. I rarely see them because they probably go to SPAM. It
is relatively simple to forge an email address. Also, it is very common to
put someone else's name on a different email address.

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On Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 10:19 AM Gary Thewlis via Vhfcn-l <
vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:

> In the last week I have received two emails from members of VHFCN that
> looked like classic scam type formats, consisting of a single word subject
> and containing only a web link and what is probably the sender's automatic
> email signature block.
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> These are the kind where malware or the like manages to send emails to
> everyone in an address book with a dangerous link embedded, a pretty
> classic
> scam.
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> I will notify one individual directly, the one I got today, but I did not
> unfortunately save the first one to follow up.
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> Anyone else seeing this?
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> Gary Thewlis
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