[SEL] identity theft attempt from fake PayPal

bill at antique-engines.com bill at antique-engines.com
Wed Feb 9 07:15:50 PST 2005


Yup - that works, too! And is probably just plain more secure overall..

Bill

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 04:58:06 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>
>
>>Next, if you MUST read a message, here's another trick.
>>Don't open the message but save it to your computer as a txt or html
>> file,
>>then open it with NOTEPAD (choose "open with", or "send to", do not
>> simply
>>choose OPEN!! It may open it in IE if it's an HTML file!).
>>You can read the text, in fact see all the hidden code, and not worry
>>about it reporting back to mama.
>>
>>Bill
>
> Better still, use a plain text email/news programme like Agent, that
> way nothing gets activated, regardless of what it is.
>
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter A Forbes
> Prepair Ltd, Luton, UK
> prepair at easynet.co.uk
> http://www.prepair.co.uk
>
>
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