*headdesk*

[anghara]

Dear Idiot Spamperson,

Just WHY would you think that I would even bother to open an email *with an attachment* which has just "hi" in the subject line... and comes from an email address which purports to be "officeholder@nitwit.com"...?

In WHAT Universe...?!?

Sigh.

Comments

[slrose.livejournal.com]

I read that as spampersand ... which I suppose must be the punctuation mark that looks like a little trash can...

[lmarley.livejournal.com]

Really! Is this the newest way to try to phish us? I'm getting a lot of them. Fortunately, I've become a very suspicious and untrusting person, and I don't open anything from anyone I don't know.

Hope I'm not losing some fan mail that way. I make it a point of honor to answer ALL fan e-mails. Really, all.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people on the internet who are, well, stupider than that spammer. Or not even stupid, but just ignorant about how the internet works, or mentally hiccupping in a particular way that isn't related to intelligence but may be related to age.

My mother, for instance, had to be admonished in firm tones not to even open email from someone she doesn't know. She's smart and educated and not suffering from alzheimer's; she just...didn't think people could or would do something bad via email.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Yabbut - as Louise said above there - I sometimes *do* get genuine email from people I don't know - people who, bless them, have read something I wrote and felt moved to tell me so. So unless the subject line or the return email is TRULY egregious and obvious, I tend to look at most things, just in case I miss something I don't WANT to miss.

Attachments, now - I hardly even open attachments from people I DO know, let alone strangers. There are very very very few people I trust enough to open an attachment from.

(and sorry, but the current rash of "you've got a postcard from a family member/friend/classmate/colleague/worshipper" (yes, WORSHIPPER - where do these people GET this stuff?!) just gets filtered straight out these days. If you want to send me a "postcard" tell me who you are - and I'll decide if I trust the information enough to open the card...)

[madam-silvertip.livejournal.com]

What is really depressing is that some people must fall for these things, or they wouldn't send them.