On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Cristian Consonni <
cristian@balist.es> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 13/05/2017 07:59, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
>> DO NOT CLICK THE LINKS.
>> This is a forged email, not coming from Katie ;-(
>
> thanks for the heads-up.
>
> A piece of additional (and non-requested) advice:
>
> 1. As a general rule, when warning about forged emails, if you reply to
> the original email or include content from the original email, eliminate
> any non-textual content (e.g. images) and any malicious links. Keeping
> them only increases the possibility of somebody clicking on them by
> mistake, and the non-textual content can be used as a tracking method.
>
> 2. try to limit as much as possible responding to the original thread,
> because it keeps the forged email up / highlighted in people's inboxes.
> This includes the fact that if somebody already pointed out that an
> email is spam/forged, it is better not to reply saying "that's right!"
> or "thank you". Open a new thread instead and let the spammy email being
> buried in your inbox forever. :-)
>
> Ciao,
>
> Cristian
>
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