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Perhaps in your inbox...
The wording on what appears to be a SSA e-mail is a bit suspect. Jim " It is imperative that you respond IMMEDIATELY to this email in order to begin receiving the SSA's monthly newsletter. You will NOT receive the newsletter until you respond by clicking the link below this message" |
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On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 4:26:07 PM UTC-8, JS wrote:
Perhaps in your inbox... The wording on what appears to be a SSA e-mail is a bit suspect. Jim " It is imperative that you respond IMMEDIATELY to this email in order to begin receiving the SSA's monthly newsletter. You will NOT receive the newsletter until you respond by clicking the link below this message" I hope it's legit cause I clicked on it |
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:39:09 -0800, krudawg wrote:
" It is imperative that you respond IMMEDIATELY to this email in order to begin receiving the SSA's monthly newsletter. You will NOT receive the newsletter until you respond by clicking the link below this message" I hope it's legit cause I clicked on it Personally, when anybody tells me I MUST respond or click something, I immediately smell a rat: usually a salesdroid or a spammer. One way to see what you've got is to look at the e-mail headers. The LAST 'received' header is the first hop the mail made and in this case should be the SSA, assuming they mailed it to their bulk-mail contracter. The From: header should carry an SSA address and often the Message-ID header will end in the sender's domain name, e.g ssa.org If your mailreader won't let you inspect the headers in a e-mail, consider getting a better one. Similarly, I NEVER run with preview on because if the mail is carrying nasties its too late once you've seen the preview. Think about it: to show you the preview, the reader must have opened the mail and already tried to show you all the pictures etc, so if any of them had nasties hidden in them, you've already been attacked. Me, I never turn preview on and always look at the plain text by default because the fancy HTML/web-styled version of the e-mail can have all manner of unpleasant things hidden in it. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 7:26:07 PM UTC-5, JS wrote:
Perhaps in your inbox... The wording on what appears to be a SSA e-mail is a bit suspect. Jim " It is imperative that you respond IMMEDIATELY to this email in order to begin receiving the SSA's monthly newsletter. You will NOT receive the newsletter until you respond by clicking the link below this message" Given that it was from Kayla Owens, I didn't suspect anything to be concerned about. UH |
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There is a message on the SSA Website indicating that it is legit.
Randy |
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On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 7:26:07 PM UTC-5, JS wrote:
Perhaps in your inbox... The wording on what appears to be a SSA e-mail is a bit suspect. Jim " It is imperative that you respond IMMEDIATELY to this email in order to begin receiving the SSA's monthly newsletter. You will NOT receive the newsletter until you respond by clicking the link below this message" I thought it was suspicious too. Didn't click it. Anyone's email can be hacked, so the fact that it was from Kayla Owens didn't hold any sway. |
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On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 8:25:39 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 7:26:07 PM UTC-5, JS wrote: Perhaps in your inbox... The wording on what appears to be a SSA e-mail is a bit suspect. Jim " It is imperative that you respond IMMEDIATELY to this email in order to begin receiving the SSA's monthly newsletter. You will NOT receive the newsletter until you respond by clicking the link below this message" Given that it was from Kayla Owens, I didn't suspect anything to be concerned about. UH More importantly, from what I saw in the "from header", I acknowledged. |
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I had the same concerns so I e-mailed Kayla directly.
The e-mail and link are legit and safe. Lou |
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On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 5:26:07 PM UTC-7, JS wrote:
Perhaps in your inbox... The wording on what appears to be a SSA e-mail is a bit suspect. Jim " It is imperative that you respond IMMEDIATELY to this email in order to begin receiving the SSA's monthly newsletter. You will NOT receive the newsletter until you respond by clicking the link below this message" I had been in touch with the SSA office recently as I hadn't received the two December SSA e-News mailings. They did not end up in my filters, nor did I end up on the Constant Contact bounce list. Perhaps I was not the only one reporting this and the reason for the change to iContact. I suggest clicking the link if you'd like to continue receiving the SSA e-News. Frank Whiteley |
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Would it not be less dramatic if the SSA merely added a check box for e-news on our member account page? Say, right under the field where our email ID is located? I also nuked the email w/o opening it.
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