new trend in spam mails----

Thanks for sharing this information with us and make us aware of the new spam techniques. I have received a very similiar one about gmail account. It asks you for your personal information such as password and date of birth. Happy Mylotting.

Of course, this is a line that one sees quite often in legitimate emails, so it is just a logical step for spammers (and worse) to copy it. I always check a link first by pointing at it. The actual URL it will take you to shows up on the Status Bar at the bottom. If something looks fishy about it (even if its something I might have once subscribed to), I generally leave it alone and mark it as spam. In fact, if I am not sure about a mail, there are a number of things I will check. First of all, is it addressed to me or me and a number of others or nobody at all? If it appears to be addressed to just me, I then look at the full header (which tells one where it really came from). The apparent sender can be easily spoofed but the path by which it arrived cannot be (or, perhaps, not so easily) because once a mail leaves the sender, the route by which it was delivered is added at each stage. If there are discrepancies, then I know the person is up to no good! As a matter of fact, if you are set up to receive HTML mail (as many people are), the instant you open some mails, the sender knows that you have. All that is necessary is to place a very small graphic (white and 1px x 1px) on a server somewhere and to include a link to it in the HTML. Every time that graphic is accessed, somebody can count it. It doesn't tell them a great deal but it can, for example, reveal your IP address (though not your email address). Spammers (and legitimate sites) can, in that way, know roughly how many of the mails they sent out were actually opened.

I haven't come to this kind of spam mails before, or I didn't notice it. I usually glance through the subjects of the emails, if it sounds funny, then I'll just report it as spam or just delete it.

Legitimate emails - especially regular email newsletters - have been saying this for quite a while. It's only natural that the spammers would pick up on that.

I have received emails like that several times. But since it is in my spam folder and I am not familiar with the sender, I directly delete it in my e-mail before it will cause a problem for me. javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cphMainContent$lbStart','')

Thanks mtsandeep for the warning, I would be more careful when it comes to email. They are getting more and more creative with the methods of getting people. I just put all into spam and see which are the idiot who is willing to spend on mails people just junk anyway.

intersting thanx for sharing!

intersting thanx for sharing!