Kayak wrote:
> I started to open the "presentation" on my other account from "
> markpin...@mail.com" and it got thankfully flagged then deleted by my
> malware protection.
Any email that simply starts with something like "click on this link"
without further explanation is not something I'd ever touch, so I didn't
bother alerting anybody because it was clear that it was potentially
dangerous. It probably wasn't anything that Mark Pinson actually sent.
It could easily be sent from elsewhere with the return address
"spoofed" as Mark Pinson's (that's easy to do with most email clients),
or he could have malware that used his address book to get the krnet
address and past email content to fabricate the spoofed email. Another
clue should have been that it came from an old KRnet email, originally
written in 2018. Very few people would have replied to an email from 2018.
Bottom line is don't click on any link that comes with no supporting
reason as to why you'd want to open it, and even then, be
skeptical....hover your mouse over it and see where the link leads
(although that's often no clue either). A lot of mail in my inbox
remains "unread", but so far I've never been infected via email....that
I know of!
This wasn't the first KRnet email to have a malicious link, and it won't
be the last. Stay vigilant....
Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com
Huntsville, AL
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