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From: hayes...@telkomsa.net (Steve Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Email allegedly from FamilySearch
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 07:59:19 +0200
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by: Steve Hayes - Thu, 15 Jun 2023 05:59 UTC

On Mon, 15 May 2023 10:53:17 +0100, Ian Goddard
<ian_ng@austonley.org.uk> wrote:

>Yes but it doesn't say much apart from the fact that there are a lot of
>people out there who will click on links in an unsolicited email and
>even try to log in when those links offer a login page.

I sometimes do that. They are usually phishing attempts, sent from an
obviously fake address, and if they ask me to log in I do so with a
fake user name and password, so they can waste a bit of their time
too.

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Steve Hayes
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Email allegedly from FamilySearch	Steve Hayes

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