[Vhfcn-l] Hacker or phishing emails?

[Jerry Feldman]

You should not call them back

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB  CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 3:13 PM Arnold B Christensen <abc15 at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >--
> >Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
> >Boston Linux and Unix
> >PGP key id: 537C5846
> >PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB  CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
> >
> >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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