every once in a while it happens. i get an e-mail that looks legit but on closer inspection it turns out that its not. here’s one of the ways i find out if an e-mail is bogus or not.
this first e-mail (shown below) appear to be from rapidshare.com — a webhosting provider. the e-mail provides [...]
today i got an e-mail from someone-that-cannot-be-named in huge (about 2cm high) bold letters, “please stop sending me notices“. or something to that effect.
talking face to face with a person is different when communicating with the same person via e-mail. to express emotion in an e-mail one has to be a little creative with the [...]
a couple of years ago one of my hard disks crashed. it wasn’t a major crash but i lost a good number of files nonetheless. i do have backups but since then i have tried to offload most of my files from my desktop and/or laptop to the internet.
at the time, one of my fast [...]
i get a lot of forwarded mails from friends containing jokes, quotes, stories and whatever. when i open the mail i see this longish list of people which forwarded the mail to their friends who forwarded to their friends, etc. until the list of recipients is nine times longer than the actual message at which [...]
the other day i received an e-mail which looked a lot like spam but it didn’t get filtered. i took a closer look and i found out that the address of the sender was my e-mail address and it was sent to the same. i’m absolutely sure i didn’t send anything with a subject “january [...]
