Dwingo Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 I received the below mail from an e-mail ID "Bridge Base Online" <rtv_support@rt.bridgebase.com> Sub: BBO: Please validate {BBOT#11689577790.44404072671114#TOBB} Hello. This is an automated email from Bridge Base Online in response to your recent email. Please reply to this message to validate your request for support from Bridge Base Online. When doing so, please do not alter the subject line in any way. Your reply will not be seen by a human. Our apologies for this inconvenience. We receive a tremendous amount of spam, and your cooperation will help us deal with it. Subject: {BBOT#11689577790.44404072671114#TOBB} Wondering what to do with mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Not spam When you send email to support@ or abuse@, that email is held while you get something that looks like your sample. You reply to that weird email, and your original email is released. This is an anti-spam "feature" that we had to implement in self-defence If you dont want to bother with all that, login to BBO, click HELP, click ASK-US-A-QUESTION and you'll see a web-form that you can fill out intead uday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 You reply to that weird email, and your original email is released. This is an anti-spam "feature" that we had to implement in self-defence Regularly I get e-mails from users who send them to me rather than to abuse or support. I forward them and moments later I get an e-mail where I am asked to validate the request. OK, so I confirm that I forwarded an e-mail. Then a few minutes later I get another one which tells me that my (?) request has been received. And finally, days or weeks after I get another one where I am told that the issue has been resolved or whatever. Do I really have to go through all that just because I forward an e-mail to the appropriate department? Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 go thru what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 go thru what? Having to respond when I forward an e-mail, considering that abuse, support, fred, uday, etc. know the sender very well. I use the same e-mail address every time. Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jikl Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 There are many programs (naughty ones) that allow people to send email from any address, think of how some viruses spread. Sean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csdenmark Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 The mail referred to here is asking for what phising mails normaly do. Mcafee has just released a report about the increase of private losses caused by phising, for USA this is estimated to 40 billion dollars. 1 1/2 year ago I received 4-5 mails, which in fact were phising mails, pretending to be sent by BBO. Phising is expected to find new forms now with fake web-sites. Phising is assumed to raise by 250% a year. No wonder Dwingo came to think of what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceptic Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 I would like to point out that certain virus sellers etc, use statistics, possibly to frighten all of us, I have heard stories that they are the ones designing the spam and viruses to make billions out of us, should I post this comment on conspiricay theories I would like to know where the $40 billion came from and how accurate the figure is, I have never actually met anyone that has lost money through phising, or even identity theft, well, that has not had the loss covered by credit card insurance or the banks have compensated for and this amounts to 1 person for each loss is the $40 billion a grossly inflated guestimate that is being used to scam more money out of punters for their products Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boris3161 Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Phishing emails usually ask for some otherwise unavailable information e.g. passwords, security information or account details. I can't see that being asked to validate that you sent an email can possibly offer the phisher any benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Also, phishing emails usually ask you to login to their web site to perform the requested "verification". The email in question just asks you to reply to it. If you really did send a message to support@ or abuse@, why would you be suspicious of receiving an automated reply shortly after? On the other hand, if you didn't send anything to them, you should ignore the message. It's serving the exact purpose it was designed for -- to keep BBO from having to respond to spam, which happened to spoof your address as the sender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csdenmark Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Also, phishing emails usually ask you to login to their web site to perform the requested "verification". The email in question just asks you to reply to it. If you really did send a message to support@ or abuse@, why would you be suspicious of receiving an automated reply shortly after? On the other hand, if you didn't send anything to them, you should ignore the message. It's serving the exact purpose it was designed for -- to keep BBO from having to respond to spam, which happened to spoof your address as the sender.1-2 years ago I still had my childish innocense. Today I cannot afford so. I feel safe using Ebay features - all other mails are suspicius to me and reported to spam filters un-opened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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