[Magdalen] List censorship???

Christopher Hart cervus51 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 03:25:20 UTC 2016


Along those lines, I've been getting repeated notices from USAA that begin:
This recent alert has placed a lock status on your account

I've never had any sort of account with USAA, although I hear it's a good
company and Rick Mashburn seems to like working there.

On Saturday, February 20, 2016, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And legitimate emails from PayPal or my bank are generally proofread
> and in some semblance of correct English, which the spam versions seem
> unable to do. A spam PayPal email sometimes purports to be from
> "Paypal," and you know the real PayPal would spell its own name
> correctly. Plus the email contents are usually gibberish but sometimes
> do sound scary and plausible, like my account has been closed due to a
> fraud attempt. The key is not to click a link in the email but go and
> sign into PayPal the usual way, outside of any link or email. And
> voila, no account closure nor problem.
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > I don't access mail directly on the Google site but every few weeks
> check in there as the spam files which do self destruct after 30 days have
> occasionally grabbed something important. There's usually over 500 spam
> emails a month and it runs the gamut from Nigerian money schemes to all
> those mentioned and more - plus most have emoticons in the subject line
> which I find interesting as none of my legit mail ever has those.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>


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