Another reason to check EVERY email closely!

Anyone who’s registered with eBay will know that when they send you an email, you’ll usually see something like this at the top of each message:

eBay sent this message to <<your name, followed by your eBay username>>.

Your registered name is included to show this message originated from eBay. Learn more.

Facebook use a similar technique, at the bottom of each message, they write:

This message was intended for <<your email address>>. Which sounds like a good idea… until someone finds away to use this to their advantage:

A message I received from, what claimed to be, facebook!

Now, I don’t have a facebook account registered to my @gawab.com address, so I knew I didn’t know this person. At the bottom, it says “This message was intended for **********@gawab.com” (obviously, my actual address was there!), so, out of curiosity I clicked the name, and found myself at the oh so familiar spam page, selling the usual stuffs!

Viagra anyone?

It’s kinda scary how they can make these emails look extremely realistic… though one does wonder why they’d try and sell fake Viagra by masquerading as a service primarily used by teenagers and young adults… not quite hitting their target audience!

But yeah, just a quick heads up, this time it was just a dodgy pharmaceutical company, next time it could be your wallet! Make sure you fully trust emails before blindly following the links!

Cheers