I just received an email that I believe to be “phishing” or in other words trying to get personal info. I cannot find a way to forward it to Taunton so they can react. Has anyone else received such an email?
John
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John,
If you want I will email you and you can then forward it to me.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
John,
I emailed you. You should be able to forward it to me without opening it depending on what you use for email. On mine I can select it and then forward without opening it.
In any event I will make sure the folks @ Taunton become aware of it.
P.S. It's generally not a good idea to post your email address and you might want to delete that post.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 6/28/2009 8:21 am ET by KiddervilleAcres
Nope! so far.
Not yet
I would follow Bob's advise and forward it.
As for me, if the phishing company does as bad as I did last year for Steelhead, theres nuttin ta worry at. :>)
John,
I used to be with AOL mail. I got more junk mail than I could shake a stick at. My son and his wife work for Google. They suggested GMail. I switched. GMail is not only free, but it is amazing. I rarely get more than one piece of junk a month. While a lot is sent to me, Gmail automaticaly picks it out and puts it into a separate box. And they don't make many errors. THEY ARE TERRIFIC. Besides, you can keep all of your email forever, or as long as you want. THey have lots of free space for storage.
Just go to
gmail.com
and click on "Create account". Give it a try, alongside whatever you have now.
Bob suggested that you forward the message to him. I am sure that he will try to get something done, but that is a hard row to hoe. He knows computers and is a really good guy. But I believe your problem will just disappear if you sign up for Google Mail. Obviously I was biased by the fact that two members of my family work at Google. But what really impressed me was how good Gmail is. Google REALLY takes spam and pfishing VERY SERIOUSLY, and then handle it successfully.
Luckily your problem is easy to solve.
Let me know if it works for you.
Mel
Measure your output in smiles per board foot.
Thanks, I may try GMail but I really don't have a problem with an excess of this type of thing. Bells go off when something doesn't compute, such as a year of FW for $14.95 and an expiration date I know is fictitious. I use Mozilla Thunderbird and it flagged this email as "Junk". I was curious when I saw Fine Woodworking as the sender.
John,
sounds like you are in full control.
MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
John,
Perhaps to set your mind at ease I have never received email from FWW/Taunton that I thought was in any way phishing. I have never received any emails from anyone that there was any hint of being connected with Taunton either.
If your email service has placed legitimate communications from FWW into your Spam emailbox then in all likelyhood it was a mistake.
I also use Gmail as does Mel and I have had no issues with using it. Again I like the fact that my email is on there servers instead of my PC. Keeps any possible junk outa there!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Are you saying that you think this email WAS from FWW/Taunton? If so I want to take advantage of the renewal price.
John
John,
Not necessarily - read Peters' response to you. He's think he's right.
These people are very clever at disguising real although some emails are legit. One way is to ask the sender via some means other than email for verification B4 responding. Be aware that if you open the email there is a chance that by doing so the intent of the email may be satisfied and the damage done.
Gmail provides a setting that allows a Pre-view of emails in an inbox which shows part/all of an email without you having to actually open it.
Another thing is that phishing is not some new fangled tactic to solicit information from unsuspecting recipients - I've had it happen here. A subtle hint, in the case of email is that the email service sometimes automatically places these in your Spam inbox.
That's why I offered you to forward it to me and I would help you verify its authenticity. What I would do is call Taunton/FWW and verify it. Another possibility would to be to try and find out who the originator really is - sometimes a dead end street.
You've actually hit upon another reason why an external service is good - they filter your email for you. The flipside is that it's not a perfect world and some emails can and do get misread and diverted to Spam. Gmail and Yahoo both have spam filters so I check the Spam box every once in a while just to be sure I didn't miss something.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Just to clarify, it doesn't need to be an "external service" to do a good job filtering spam. Both of my ISP's have been good -- Earthlink and Comcast. I've always checked my mail on Web Mail, deleted any spam, and then downloaded into my resident email program. Keeps things less cluttered.
Some think "Well, but it takes a long time to check all those emails to see if they're spam." Nope, for those that aren't glaringly apparent from the subject, just hover the mouse over the sender's name. The email address that pops up won't match the name 99 out of 100.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
forestgirl,
Absolutely.
Oh there are so many ways to skin all these cats runnin around. I think that skinning business causes a lot of frustration for many folks. Along with your suggestion using the Preview mode in any case is worth taking a look at too.
Don't think MACs or Unix based systems are immune to it either but don't know Jack about MACs and my Unix is gettin rusty from lack of use. Byt these issues reside pretty well up there on the IP stack.
Regards, Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
If its too good to be true..etc.
Some of these phising folks are very good at what they do. I recently received an email from I thought was my bank offering a new service. Damn it looked authentic. Something in the back of my mind told me to phone the bank. For instance the bank has never emailed me. You guessed it, it was a nasty piece of work. They had just gotten word of it themselves.
Cheers,
Peter
Better life through Zoodles and poutine...
John,
You can send the email to me. I'm an editor with the magazine. Click on my user name and there's an option to send me an email.
Thanks, Matt K.
Matt, I think another poster explained the email. It was a renewal for "Fine Woodworking.com. I didn't remember subscribing to this service and I am nortorious for not reading details in emails. I only read "Fine Woodworking". I'm now trying to decide whether to continue the .com subscription.Thanks anyway,
John
Okay, glad to know there isn't someone out there using us in some phishing scheme.Matt K.This is my personal signature.
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