(responding to Samuel, George, and Tim)
> If you're not sure and it's important, then try contacting
> them to verify it. Use an alternate method if possible.
That's how the message that triggered this thread was ultimately solved.
But sometimes that's not available. I have several foreign friends,
and e-mail is the only contact method available to me. Even if I did
have phone numbers for them, the time difference makes reaching them
impractical. (besides, who answers personal calls anymore?!)
> Are you going to change your email accounts every time some
> spammer starts using the address?
No. I did that only once 4+ years ago, when the situation was
particularly damaging and risky. Even now, 2 of my e-mail addresses get
some spam (in the strict sense of the word, that is, referring to
advertising), and I simply set the Thunderbird filters to screen them
out. Another e-mail address (used for job hunting) gets occasional
messages that I strongly suspect are malicious (not spam, i.e.
advertising). These have all been easy to recognize as probably
malicious (the sender address is international), so I just delete them.
(I wonder which of the companies I applied to was hacked.)
> ... The From and To on my screen show my full name and email address,
> scary!
That's an obvious case of something bad. But that's not the scary part.
A few years ago, I got phone calls in which the caller-id showed the
caller was me. I did not answer. But what scares me is that, if they
can call me using my number, then they can call other numbers using my
number, and can get me into very serious trouble. The same possibility
with e-mail addresses presumably also exists. Those phone calls were
the only time I reported spoofing to law enforcement (the FCC).
> If I have a shop ask me for an email ....
I seriously fight that, too.
> Some mail servers let you tag +word to your username, and
> they'll deliver it to your normal address.
Interesting idea. I just tried it. Unfortunately, yahoo apparently
does not support it:
"554: delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account"
Good tips from everyone. I'll try to keep them in mind next time.
Thank-you!
Bill.
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