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Is This Email Safe to Open?


Question Posted Saturday May 20 2006, 7:40 am

A Few times now, I have received emails with the subject saying "A Friend Has Recomended You", and they are sent by 'Customer Service'. The first time I got one, I opened the email to find a link, but with no explanation to where the link was for. I have no clue where this could be coming from, and I dont trust it(viruses, hackers,ect).
I should Also mention that it has the red exclamation point, which means 'of high importance' on it.
Does anyone know where this email comes from or what it is, and is it safe?


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Sherry answered Saturday May 20 2006, 1:28 pm:
It's probably spam or it could be a virus. But if you open up the email, nothing will happen...you usually have to click a link in the email that will send you to the virus/spam whatever. You can open the email but just dont click anything..you should be fine.

If it asks you to download an attachment and it ends in .zip or .exe or anything that you havent heard of...dont download it. But dont download it anyway if its not from someone you know.


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