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Phishing in the Rain

I get excited every time I receive an email from an Active Rain contact. Feeling a bit overdue for another consumer contact, I gleefully clicked on Monday's email. Yikes, my hopes for a seller or buyer were dashed by someone out phishing for email addresses. Here's the message I received:

Subject: hi (Sent via Activerain)
hello
My name is jessica, i saw your profile today and became
intrested in you,i will also like to know you more,and
if you can send an email to my email address,i will
give you my pictures here is my email address
I believe we can move from here!
Awaiting for your mail to my email address above jessica

Sorry, Jessica, I won't be sending you my email address, and although I'm sure your picture is lovely, I prefer a pre-approval letter. Oh, by the way, please keep your spam and scam out of the rain.

Norma Toering & Team RE/MAX Palos Verdes Realty
(310) 493-8333 / Office Phone: (310) 831-0800

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Posted by Norma Toering Rolling Hills & Palos Verdes Property on 06/17/2009 09:24 AM

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11 Comments on Phishing in the Rain

JUN

We're getting these on a regular basis, although I believe that ActiveRain does a spectacular job of spam control. Certainly better than the filters on my servers.

If you get it through ActiveRain mail, it will probably contain an IP number. Send it to Jeremy and ActiveRain will block them.

It never ends.

Lenn - I'll send it to Jeremy.

I got one just the other day from a phisher who was actually a member of Active Rain! Yikes!

I've had several of these the past few weeks.

I love this line and almost spewed coffee on the monitor: ...and although I'm sure your picture is lovely, I prefer a pre-approval letter.

Funny.

I am so used to deleting junk that I just say goodbye to it and forget it.

I've had some weird ones as well. I guess it's a small annoyance (usually) for the benefits of social networking. Nothing is as weird as all the spam from SEX GOD over at Facebook though LoL

Pat - Between the telemarketing calls and phishing emails I'm sensing a heightened level of desperation out there.

Dedra - A sense of humor can save your sanity!

Steven - My index finger is sore from pushing the delete button....

Colleen - Yes, I actually thought it a chance to have a little fun--but I hope SEX GOD stays away from my Facebook page.

Blech, I know the feeling. I had been slacking off from Active Rain for awhile and when I returned a couple of days ago, I noticed a bunch of solicitation type comments... ANNOYING!

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