Spam from an angry person - Do Not Respond!

byGitErDun

517 followers

8 years ago

Have you seen the latest spam tactic, getting an email from anyone cursing you out and telling you to stop stalking them or sending them your pictures, etc. Your first reaction, of course, is to say to yourself "WTHey," then you're tempted to reply back - DON'T DO THAT (reply back, that is)!

The whole purpose of spam is to get you to actually take some action in response to whatever they're pushing or talking about. Usually that's just for you to click a link that they provide or open an attachment.

If you do that, at the very least, you've confirmed your email account to them as active, which invites them to fill your email account with much more spam. At the worst, you could allow them to download and install malware or whatever, possibly secretly and hidden, that damages your computer or siphons personal information. Also, you could be taken to a fake website (one representing a popular website) which will give you a form for your personal details in order to do nasty and terrible things to rip you off or hack into one (or more) of your accounts; known as phishing (anti-virus programs do not protect you from this kind of attack).

Bottom line, always think twice before clicking on ANY link or opening ANY attachment in ANY email, whether it's in your spam folder or not. ~ Mike