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How does it make you a greater risk? Is it possible you have an email address similar to someone else's? I receive emails obviously targeted at a different pers
by 086421357909764 9y ago
How does it make you a greater risk? Is it possible you have an email address similar to someone else's? I receive emails obviously targeted at a different person, but because our addresses are so similar It's a common occurrence.
Unless you're speaking of a spear phish trying to lure you into clicking a link, it's just harmless spam. Hell the same could be said if I signed your email up for dirty porn emails, you'd just delete or ignore.
- hbarka 9y agoIt's an easy vector for spear phishing because it contains an official click-through button for disavowing. Very easy to manipulate and do the podesta trick with it. Saying it's harmless isn't actually true and also isn't a good answer.
- 086421357909764 9y agoRight but the matter stands as this, if you weren't expecting it and it's not relevant to you, it's likely spam, so get rid of it.
- hbarka 9y agoIt's not the same class as spam, as you're insisting. Merely deleting the email doesn't "get rid of it". Now there's a hard association between you and the other party and can be social hacked as a recovery email. It's bad practice on Gmail's part to create an official function which commits without authorization or authentication.