E-mail Account Verification

users
#1

is this for real or not?
           I cannot believe this is for real therefore I'm ignoring it;
          yet I'm curious as to how these inane ideas occur to some folks.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
It is spam. Even if it is genuine then it would be good if they do
unsubscribe the Users Mailing List from such a sales site anyway!

I'm sure there is some scam where legit businesses are suckered into paying
marketing experts to increase their page hits and such and these marketing
experts turn out to be large-scale spammers. I think some legit business
owners have then been deluged with such hate mail that it's caused them
serious mental health problems so please go easy on them!
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

​Looks like a 101 Phishing attempt.​ And yet enough people keep falling for
them :frowning:

#4

See, for example:
http://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/article/2014/5/7/team-google-email-account-spam-and-fraudulent-verification-survey-scam/
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/fraudulent-verification-survey-phishing-scam.shtml
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/fraudsurvey.asp

Brian Barker

#5

Hi,

       is this for real or not?
           I cannot believe this is for real therefore I'm ignoring it;
          yet I'm curious as to how these inane ideas occur to some folks.

Please post these questions on the moderator's list, you're already
subscribed to it as a moderator. If you don't know what to do with a mail
in the moderation queue, let another moderator deal with it.
The user list should not be disturbed by the list management :slight_smile:
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Sophie

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
I don't think it bothered anyone here and i think some of us learned some
useful stuff as a result. In general i agree but this was an unusual case
imo.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: