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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