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I received a message and sould.. ckate3@openprotection.info

Sep 5, 2007 5:29AM PDT

I received a message and it ask me to replay if I want to receive "pictures",
but ask not to replay to the sender but at the following address contained
in the text message: "ckate3@openprotection.info"
Any body knows what is the "openprotection.info" about?
It seems to me very strange as an email address.
Some one can help?
Thank you.
Michel from Brussels.

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I would not have opened such an email
Sep 5, 2007 5:55AM PDT

Whenever I receive emails from senders who I do not recognize, I delete immediately without even previewing the email, (I turn off the View > Layout > Preview Pane).

Opening such emails, or even previewing them, can send a message back to the sender that your email address is active, and so they can send you more spam.

I am not sure why you opened this one in the first place.

Is that wording right? You said, "it ask me to replay if I want to receive pictures". Replay what?

But in any case, don't open them. If the sender is not in your address book or contact list, you don't want to know them. If you do business online, eg internet banking, or eBay, or PayPal, Amazon, etc, do not click on any links in any emails supposedly from the online service you use as this could be a phishing attack, ie the link takes you somewhere else where your personal details are requested and then stolen. If such an email asks you to check/change your personal details, goto the site through your normal means and double check, not through any email link.

Mark

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Thank you very much Mark
Sep 5, 2007 2:32PM PDT

Thank you very much Mark.
You right: It was the word "reply." and not "replay".
But anyway I did deleted the message.
Thank you for your advices.
Michel.

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Re: openprotection.info
Sep 5, 2007 8:17AM PDT

It sure is a valid and harmless url www.openprotection.info. So it's a valid domain and a valid email address. Nothing wrong with that, and certainly not strange. 'info' is a top-level domain since about 2004.

But it's a website without any information. If you go to it (I took the risk), you get a message that's it's an initialized (and no more) apache webserver answering the call. So there's no content at all. It's just (one or more) email-address and no info. Ain't that suspect?

I don't see any reason to ask an unknown sender (wanting to stay unknown apparently) to send me 'pictures'. In fact, I know a lot of reasons to NOT do it. Remember the Anna Kournikiva pictures? That was a virus.
And that's what you should do also: discard the message.

I live in Holland (where we speak Dutch), and I routinely delete mails from unknown senders with English subjects lines without opening them. If you live in Brussels (and probably speak French) the same would apply for you. Luckily, most spam is in English.

And please notice the difference between replay (= play again, for example a mp3 or a game) and reply (= answer). That makes your question much easier to understand (as shown by Marks answer). Just a tip, we don't discriminate "foreigners" here, but it helps to be as clear as possible.

Good of you to ask, anyway.

Kees