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I have received 3 or 4 e mails in the last 2 days with the subject line "Thank you for your purchase" All from gmail accounts. The e mail program I use allows me to right click on the email and see the senders address.
They go in the trash pile. Almost everything that I do not recognize goes there now.
Anyone else getting similar e mails?
I have not discovered how to do the same trick in Outlook that came with my new install of Office 2020.

David
 
Almost everything that I do not recognize goes there now.

Good rule to follow!

I get no "Thank you for your purchase". I get:

Dicks Sporting Goods
A Message from Pamela Bowen
Congratulations! You've been chosen for a YETI backpack cooler!
You have a gift card from Kohl's
Susan Stanley is trying to reach you

A couple of these a day. Just started about a month ago. Lots of posts on various forums about Gmail being so overloaded with spam and their system filters not working. I set individual filters which do work, but it's crazy that Gmail is no longer able to handle the glut.

One penny per email and most of the junk would stop within a day.

argh

(On a side note, I'm really ticked off that my doctors, medical insurance, and labs send me emails like "You have an important message. Click here to go to our website, enter member ID, enter password, choose Messages, choose New Message, so you can read the important message.")

All in the effort to "Go paperless". Yeah, right.

argh argh
 
I “won” a DeWalt generator yesterday. All I had to do was “click here” to confirm my address.
It makes me wonder how many gullible people actually “click here”?
 
How many gullible people?
Close to the same number who believe whatever they see on their smartphone screen.

grumble grumble
 
There really should be a service, legally authorized and generally available, to help consumers utterly destroy the systems sending this carp.
Bob
 
Bob - interesting idea. If a large number of folks set their email system to forward the junk mails to the server(s) which sent them, there's a possibility of flooding and overloading those servers themselves.

Sort of a reverse "DDOS Distributed Denial of Service" attack.
Tom M.
 
I got this morning an email from my credit card holder, yep it is a legit address, stating they will be sending "offers" for other services and items starting soon and that it will occur even for those who opt out. So what's the point of even having an opt out button of they're going to ignore their own settings...
 
Mike - what exactly do they say about "even for those who opt out"?

When I do a Google search (or other search engines) for something like "How to use winter rye as cover crop", first thing that shows as the result are dozens of ads for "winter rye", or "cover crop", or "rye grass", etc.

If "selling stuff and services" is taking more than ever, and usable information is dropping behind ... one might just consider "dropping out".

Ever notice how many websites (and forums) now start with a popup asking for your email address, so you can "subscribe to our newsletter full of important and exciting deals!"?

Just sayin'

PS - find a new credit card.
PPS - do you speak German?
 
Had this credit card 40 years now, and all it said was they were going to be starting sending notices on things they think their customers would be interested in. No details of what products, how many to expect or anything. May just block them as text messages if it actually starts.
 
Mac
I like your idea, but I bet the servers we would bombard have filters that refuse any email that originally came from their address. ?
Bob
 
Mike
When Congress solved the spam problem (haha) with the CAN-SPAM Act, they made it inoperative as to persons with whom you have an ongoing relationship. Perhaps you could write your Senators and get this fixed (haha, again).
Bob
 
NutmegCT said:
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(On a side note, I'm really ticked off that my doctors, medical insurance, and labs send me emails like "You have an important message. Click here to go to our website, enter member ID, enter password, choose Messages, choose New Message, so you can read the important message.")

All in the effort to "Go paperless". Yeah, right.

argh argh
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They can't just email you the message because of the privacy law (HIPAA). Don't email anything that you don't want everyone to see unless it's secured.
 
Thanks John. But isn't email "secure" as anything else? You need a login and password to receive it.
Tom M.
 
NutmegCT said:
Thanks John. But isn't email "secure" as anything else? You need a login and password to receive it.
Tom M.
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I understand that it can be intercepted and read as it makes its way from server to server. The last time I sent something by email, I sent our signed tax return back to our accountant after encrypting it. He knew the password already.

It's why our banks and insurance company ask us to upload documents to their secure sites instead of emailing them.
 
I get them periodically but in my email program (Thunderbird) there is a flag alongside every email that if clicked marks that mail as spam/trash and remembers it to delete. One button deletes the whole batch! If it pops up again it's marked in red to delete. (y)
 
John Turney said:
I got one from "service@paypal.com" which was an invoice for "Bitcoin exchange." I was surprised at how well it was done. I, of course, logged into my account, saw it was nothing and forwarded the email to the real PayPal.
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I got one from PayPal. Some created a PayPal account and sent out bogus bills. In the body of the email, it stated that my account had been hacked and to call their number (not PayPal's) to clear it up. I looked up PayPal's real number and called. They were aware of the situation.
 
NutmegCT said:
Thanks John. But isn't email "secure" as anything else? You need a login and password to receive it.
Tom M.
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Some more detail on this question:

Email is (in its basic form) one of the least secure comunication methods. This is because once you hit SEND and it goes to your provider, it gets bounced through many different servers before reaching its destination, and it is sent in plain unencrypted text along the way so anyone can read the text of it while in transit. If your provider uses an SSL layer in their email send process, that only encrypts the content between your computer and your provider.

All this was designed long before there was any thought of allowing public access to the internet systems, so security was not even a consideration. It is also why spoofing email and making it look like it came from someone else is trivially easy.

All internet traffic bounces through multile routers and servers, but HTTPS encrypted web servers send encrypted data from beginning to end and therefore it is somewhat harder to intercept data in the middle.

I like to think of it like sending a postcard versus a letter in small locked box. Anyone can see whats on the post card as it goes through the mail, someone would have to make a deliberate effort to access whats in the locked box.
 
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