As you probably know some of our friends have been instrumental in putting Parish Registers etc. on the Derbyshire List (and others). This came in supposedly from them, the e-mail address is correct but does not not seem to be functioning. It came up with a background of a "census" and then asked to go into it via Excel, which we did not. Therefore, I think it is a scam. So if they have my e-mail address they most probably have yours. Be careful, Edna - sunny Ottawa

Hi Edna This sounds an incredibly complicated way to spam someone It sounds rather like its not spam to me I would contact the sender and ask if they sent it using the email address you know and have in your address book, rather than using reply to the email received But otherwise I suspect your fears are unfounded Also, gathering email addresses from a mailing list is a time consuming and rather pointless way of gathering them, they have far easier methods to harvest email addresses from companies and government agencies Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 18/07/2018 15:40, liverpud wrote: > > As you probably know > some of our friends have been instrumental in putting Parish Registers etc. > on the Derbyshire List (and others). > This came in supposedly from them, the e-mail address is correct but > does not not seem to be functioning. It came up with a background of a "census" and > then asked to go into it via Excel, which we did not. Therefore, I think it is a scam. > So if they have my e-mail address they most probably > have yours. > > Be careful, > > Edna - sunny Ottawa

Nivard is correct. I was an officer for some years in a professional "I.T." organization in the US and we used e-mail to communicate with members. We had two ways of checking for SPAM: 1. We had the officers' names in the mailing list with the first name slightly misspelled. If they got e-mail from a spammer, they just had to look at the name and they knew it had been "lifted" from one of our mailing. We never had that happen. 2. If we sold the mailing list, which we rarely did, the officers' first names would be changed to "I. T.". We had only two reports of a sold list being used by spammers. We DID have a few spammers get addresses, but anyone can boy the hardware needed to monitor all Internet traffic that passes by and pull out the e-mail addresses with simple software. Our e-mail doesn't just go to the intended destination. It hops around the Internet and get passed on toward the destination. That's what makes it flexible and functional - one server can go down, but the mail just moves around it. Meanwhile, enjoy your free trip to Spain. Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington.one@gmail.com> To: "derbysgen" <derbysgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:44:29 AM Subject: [DBY]Re: Scam Hi Edna This sounds an incredibly complicated way to spam someone It sounds rather like its not spam to me I would contact the sender and ask if they sent it using the email address you know and have in your address book, rather than using reply to the email received But otherwise I suspect your fears are unfounded Also, gathering email addresses from a mailing list is a time consuming and rather pointless way of gathering them, they have far easier methods to harvest email addresses from companies and government agencies Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 18/07/2018 15:40, liverpud wrote: > > As you probably know > some of our friends have been instrumental in putting Parish Registers etc. > on the Derbyshire List (and others). > This came in supposedly from them, the e-mail address is correct but > does not not seem to be functioning. It came up with a background of a "census" and > then asked to go into it via Excel, which we did not. Therefore, I think it is a scam. > So if they have my e-mail address they most probably > have yours. > > Be careful, > > Edna - sunny Ottawa _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe and Archives https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/derbysgen Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community