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The E-mail for the upcoming Strasburrg show was sent out recently. It is a pretty safe bet the scammer/scammers got their E-mail addresses from the distribution list in the header of that E-mail. If you are sending an E-mail to a large group of people, it would be prudent to send it using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) option so the names of those receiving the note are not visible to each other.

Simon

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... it would be prudent to send it using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) option so the names of those receiving the note are not visible to each other.

^^That's "computers 101", but it's still really good advice!

Also, if you get an unusual email, hover your cursor over the sender's name - it will usually display the actual sender's email address.  If the email says it's from joe@someplace.com but hovering shows that it actually came from something that doesn't look at all like Joe's email address, don't open it and report it as spam.  (Not sure how much good that actually does, but it makes me feel better.)

And I'm still amazed at the frequency with which people on this forum put their email address and phone number in posts, especially in the sell/buy area.  Often accompanied by their real name...  smh.

@bob3 posted:

I've used the "hover" trick for quite a while, but I noticed that the email we are discussing herein, and another one that I received over the weekend, show the "correct" email address when I hover - so the scum gets ever better :-(

The trick here is to change the view of your email client to see all the message headers, then you can actually see where they come from.  This one and the one asking you to look at something in Dropbox both came with the From: address correct for the person, you have to dig deeper.

The E-mail for the upcoming Strasburrg show was sent out recently. It is a pretty safe bet the scammer/scammers got their E-mail addresses from the distribution list in the header of that E-mail. If you are sending an E-mail to a large group of people, it would be prudent to send it using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) option so the names of those receiving the note are not visible to each other.

Simon

Certainly a good practice to BCC but the email I got came to an account of mine not on the Strasburg distribution list.   

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OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
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