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receiving emails not addressed to me
20-10-2014 8:45 AM
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20-10-2014 9:20 AM
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At first glance it may appear that these emails are for someone else, which is the intention. It is done to entice you to 'snoop' at what you are meant to think is another person's email and of course once you open the email the payload (virus, worm, etc) will be activated. You are getting them because your email address in included somewhere in the headers. You are not the only person getting these and you should not take it personally.
I doubt that this will be the last email of this kind that you get. So please don't waste to much of your time on it. Simply delete the email, life is too short to fight spam.
Also, do not be tempted to reply to these emails, as this proves that your email address is real, and you will end up getting more and more spam as a consequence.
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Mook
Re: receiving emails not addressed to me
20-10-2014 11:02 AM
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To expand on what Mook has said, it is likely that you have been "blind copied" (bcc) on the email. In such circumstances, your email address does not show when you look at the email.
You can reduce the volume of such emails by changing the settings of the PlusNET spam and virus filtering services. Log into the PlusNET user portal and go to manage my email. Click the email icon.
One of the tabs there gives you access to the spam filtering services.
Kevin
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20-10-2014 1:18 PM
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20-10-2014 11:53 PM
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In another browser tab, login into the Plusnet user portal BEFORE clicking the fault & ticket links
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21-10-2014 11:07 AM
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