Over many months - possibly a couple years now, I've been getting email from strange addresses. iMac mail, I don't know about other mail programs, you can click on a drop-down arrow adjacent to the senders name. When the message is legitimate it matches the sender, or in some way is reasonably close. Sorry, I can't give an example at present. But many source email addresses come back as some massively gibberish names, which are obviously scam sources. I ALWAYS check the source before I open an email. For many months now I've been getting messages that appear to come from MY OWN Email address. It's obvious that address has made its way to the dark web. Today I got one FROM NO SOURCE AT ALL. Obviously I didn't try to open it. It had many links to many things that I simply refused to open. No telling WHAT I might open myself up to.
One thing I've been doing is compiling all these scam emails in preparation to send them to the FBI or some other scam busting government site (to be decided later). When I tried to move this newest email to my scams folder my computer locked up. I couldn't even shut it down. I had to unplug the computer in order to regain control. Then upon again attempting to move it - the computer locked up again. Once again I had to unplug my computer. I could not force quit mail and couldn't open anything else. So once again I regained control of my computer. This time I ONLY deleted it. Then I went to my deleted folder and emptied everything I had deleted, including the offending email.
BEWARE OF ALL INCOMING MESSAGES. ALWAYS CHECK THE SOURCE ADDRESS. If you recognize it or it looks legitimate - proceed at your own discretion. If it looks strange or you're in any way concerned about the source - if it's not a necessary message just do yourself a huge favor and delete it. No questions asked.
I'm creating this post so you can put your experiences here as well. We all can learn from the experiences of each other.
Peace bro's and sis's.
One thing I've been doing is compiling all these scam emails in preparation to send them to the FBI or some other scam busting government site (to be decided later). When I tried to move this newest email to my scams folder my computer locked up. I couldn't even shut it down. I had to unplug the computer in order to regain control. Then upon again attempting to move it - the computer locked up again. Once again I had to unplug my computer. I could not force quit mail and couldn't open anything else. So once again I regained control of my computer. This time I ONLY deleted it. Then I went to my deleted folder and emptied everything I had deleted, including the offending email.
BEWARE OF ALL INCOMING MESSAGES. ALWAYS CHECK THE SOURCE ADDRESS. If you recognize it or it looks legitimate - proceed at your own discretion. If it looks strange or you're in any way concerned about the source - if it's not a necessary message just do yourself a huge favor and delete it. No questions asked.
I'm creating this post so you can put your experiences here as well. We all can learn from the experiences of each other.
Peace bro's and sis's.