[PLUG] HELP, service provider may be VICTIM?

[Russell Senior]

Someday I will learn to proof-read emails composed on my phone before
pressing the send button. Sadly, today is not that day.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 13:20 Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> The other think it would add is to not trust any information that you get
> from the suspicious messages, e.g. there email address to reply to. Look
> that up independently. Also, you could start the conversation with them by
> generally describing the email, and let them ask for the exact copy.
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 13:16 Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
>
>> On 03/12/2020 02:52 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm getting strange emails PURPORTEDLY from my email service provider.
>> >> I've dealt with them (or predecessor) for >3 decades.
>> >> The textual content raises many red flags.
>> >>   a. the emails did *NOT* include local telephone number
>> >>   b. today's email had a *BLANK* subject line
>> >>   c. the attachment to one email was an *.EXE* file
>> >>      *BUT* I'm a Linux user
>> >>
>> >> I notified them by telephone that I *suspected a problem*
>> >>
>> how>> How do I safely *FOR THEM & MYSELF* forward suspicious emails?
>> >
>> > Most e-mail clients will allow you to save to disk the entirety of an
>> > e-mail message, headers and body both included.
>>
>> That is what I wanted.
>>
>> >
>> > I suggest you save it to disk, then gzip or xz it, and send it as an
>> > attachment to your provider.
>>
>> HOW?
>>
>> I use SeaMonkey version 2.49.4 under Linux (IE. Debian 9.)
>>
>> Am I askinging the RIGHT questions?
>>
>>
>>
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