honest message or "phishing" from Russia?

Rebecca Jane Stanton rjs19 at COLUMBIA.EDU
Wed Jun 27 14:46:45 UTC 2007


Postcard.ru is a perfectly legitimate free electronic-greetings-card 
service not unlike the one at Amazon.  I use it all the time.  That 
said, as Prof. Hauge suggests, it's always a good idea to check, before 
clicking, that the URL really points whither it appears to be pointing.

Regards,
RJS

Kjetil RĂ¥ Hauge wrote:

>> My "spam filter' flagged the "postcard" (?) attached below.  I have 
>> NOT clicked the blue attachment or the address b/c I fear it may come 
>> from some "zhulik."
>
>
> Being a Macintosh user, I fearlessly clicked the URL, after first 
> checking the source code of the message to make sure tnat another URL 
> was not hiding behind it. It lead me to a "page not found"-page, and 
> from there automatically to the home page of postcard.ru, which seems 
> to be in the business that its name indicates.

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