[Vhfcn-l] Hacker or phishing emails?

[Arnold B Christensen]

I have gotten a couple.The actual return address was for a Technology 
Universtity in Ho Chi Minh City which we used to call Saigon.Got one 
from our Lil Sis Susan today. My Cell Phone rec's  what I call Spam 
calls to. It is such that if you as a friend or contact name is not 
attached to the phone number  it is a quick hang up and when I have 
time I go back and add the number to my massive reject list. When I 
first got into emailing friends and then getting a flip cell phone so 
that the kids could contact us where ever we were bedded down. Then 
there re doctors offices who call and if you don't answer your cell 
within 2-3 rings they hang up.  They are totally confused when I tell 
them I was mowing the lawn when you called and my cell was in the 
house. My life is not determined by a cell phone as it was not run by 
the old Beepers people wanted to implant on our waists.

I remember when the phone rang off the wall in the kitchen back in 
Rhode Island at my parents house and at some point my father would be 
close enough to reach over and pick it up and someone would tell him 
that they call several times and no one answered.  He often replied, 
"So What! Did the world end because I was outside with my family and 
did not notice the ending?"  To my knowledge he never wore a beeper 
unless he was at work. He never had a cell phone. He once told me not 
to get a cell phone because the damned thing will ruin your life as 
you know it.  Cell phone attitude took a long time to catch up to me 
but I would tell Dad that if I wasn't the person I am...It sure 
would. Took me awhile to learn about the Contact list in my phone and 
how to stop calls that did not have a name attached.

Oh well life goes on.
Da Foot




6 AM 4/12/2020, Jerry Feldman via Vhfcn-l wrote:
>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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > I will notify one individual directly, the one I got today, but I did not
> > unfortunately save the first one to follow up.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone else seeing this?
> >
> >
> >
> > Gary Thewlis
> >
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