E-mail from Dave Gardner?

[dale gleason]

I am in reciept of an email pertaining to helicopters/airplanes from Dave Gardner. Has anyone else recieved this email, is it legit?
Come in please, Dave,
dale g

[john e. holliday]

If it is in your spam mail, blow it away fast.   Also if you doubt it, blow it away quickly.  Copy his E-Mail on paper with pencil not computor and then send him an E-Mail.

We have clowns or they think tey are clowns that like to play games by messing with peope E-Mails and computors. 

[Howard Rush]

The aeronautical quiz?  It is legit and revealing.

[dale gleason]

Once again, Doc has hit the nail on the head. It's those clowns! As soon as I find a pencil, I will follow his lead.
Thanks, Howard, for the back-up. Since it wasn't an attachment, I should have figgered it out.

When spammers
make..
life hard,
JCT is there,
always on guard...

dg

[Howard Rush]

We have clowns or they think tey are clowns that like to play games by messing with peope E-Mails and computors. 

Some of my best friends are clowns.

[Steve Helmick]

Despite the clown suit, Howard is not "one of those clowns". He is THE clown.

The email from DG came into my inbox and is a rather old (but pleasent) smutty joke about why helichoppers are superior to winged AC. Despite the obvious, I'll never get into a helichopper, but will now pay more attention as they prepare to takeoff.

It was really from Dave, not another one of those spam things. He address book seems safe for the moment. That said, beware of links sent (supposedly) by people who are likely to have your email in their address book. The tipoffs are (no subject) in the subject line, a mass mailing, and a very short and generic text message, if any. I will sometimes right click on a suspicious link to see what it really reads under "properties". A lot of these will be from Singapore, or read ".com.ru" or ".com.pl", etc. Avoid left clicking on those, and delete them immediately. SOMETIMES, I'll hit "reply" and ask if my friend sent the email...if "no", then delete. If "yes", then suggest that they fill in the subject line and write a better message about the link. A link can easily be a direct link to a computer virus, so you need to be careful. The people that do this stuff should be hunted down and shot, but they are NOT "clowns"!   Steve

[rustler]

....is it legit?

Who cares?? [Did I say that?]

[Tim Wescott]

Finding a site with all the latest tips on secure email reading is a good idea.  Once you read them, actually paying attention is probably better.

The single most important thing you can do is to make sure that your email reader does not run any scripts it finds in an HTML email.  The single most secure thing you can do is to find an email reader that won't render HTML, but rather shows you the text, then pick out the message from that.  As far as I'm concerned, unless you have state secrets on your computer that's about as sensible clutching a shot gun when you open the doors to little girls selling cookies, but hey, that's just me.

Make sure that your email reader will show you a link address when you hover over it.  Then distrust any email that has a link that doesn't match the text.  One common spam thing to do is to show a decoy link as text, while the real link sends you off to some malware site.

One spam that I've been getting recently (and repeatedly!) is purportedly from the CEO of some insurance company, telling me that they've looked at my resume and I'm ideal for them.  The insurance company is real, the links are fake, and it would take a lot of convincing to make me believe that an insurance company has a need for a circuit designer, an embedded software engineer, someone facile with digital signal processing, or an expert in control systems, which is about the extent of what I can claim as professional expertise.