Ive Found An Email In My Spam Folder.

[ladybirder]

I recognise the name and her email addy is correct BUT before her email is:
"http://tiny.cc/mrh3az Jane Doe From: Jane Doe" and then goes straight into the proper email address of Jane Doe.

Do you think this is genuine? I'm on a Mac and this is most unusual.
Any help much appreciated.

[THECORBYLOON]

It sounds dodgy but could you not ask her if she sent it to you?

[BigT65]

it should just be the email address of the sender anything else is usually spam or a worm or virus

[DTCwordfan]

Use the surgeon's first maxim, 'If in doubt, rip it out.' If it's genuine, she'll get back to you.

[ladybirder]

Thanks TCL, if I could I would.

[Buenchico]

Tiny.cc addresses are (like the tinyurl.com ones many of of us use on AB) are a way of presenting proxy addresses which will then divert to the actual website that's the intended target. They've got many perfectly legitimate uses (primarily to shorten ridiculously long web addresses) but they can be used to direct unwitting people to some dodgy websites (which might, for example, dump some malware onto a person's computer).

The one in your email redirects to the server of a Indian firm which manufactures tea cleaning equipment. However I strongly suspect that a (perfectly legitimate) company is totally unaware that their server has been hacked and is now hosting what appears at first sight to be a page taken from the Daily Mirror's website. (However all of the links on that page also go to 'proxy' web addresses, and not to where they appear to point at).

The (faked) Daily Mirror page appears to be reporting the success of a student who earns £35k per month from home by using the services of an automated trading platform, called BTC Profit. The article then goes on to state that their reporters have tested the system for themselves and that they're happy to recommend it. (There are, of course, 'helpful' links so that people can sign up to BTC Profit).

i.e. the whole thing is, at the least, 'spam' (in that it's an unwanted advert) but far likely 'scam' (as anyone signing up to BTC Profit will probably be asked for their bank details in order to register).

I can't see how any legitimate email would ever include such a link!

Delete!

[Peter Pedant]

no one has a name Jane Doe for chrissakes
it is a scam

Jane Doe is the name the yanks give an unknown lady
Jane Doe and Richard Roe were ghost names used on writs in the eightteenth century so that cases cd be heard in (transferred to ) London and not the sticks. - the great reforms (!) of 1835, 1854 and 1873 got rid of them but they remained in the american legal system

as chris says
rip its heart out and put the sinner still beating into the rubbish bin - set alight

[Tilly2]

I thought it was John Doe.

[ummmm]

Sigh...PP - I think LB changed the name to Jane Doe.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Methinks, PP, that Ladybirder knows full well what 'Jane Doe' means and has simply substituted that name for the real name of the person that the email appears to come from.

LB:
It could be that your own contacts list has been hacked (so that you can be sent dodgy emails which appear to come from your friends) but it's equally likely that the contacts list of the person who (allegedly) sent the email has been hacked.

Another AB member (Anaxcrosswords) had his contacts list hacked several years ago. My email address was listed there so, every few months, I now receive emails that appear to come from Anaxcrosswords but which actually only contain dodgy-looking links.

[ladybirder]

Yes I substituted my contact's name for Jane Doe and had it been a male it would have been John Doe - oh dear;-)

Thank you all and especially Chris, I shall delete it. Chris I am bowled over by your internet skills. Amazing what goes on.

Sugar, how do I know if my contact list has been hacked? I use Macs and this has never happened in the 20 odd years I've been using them. I thought they were as near as damn it foolproof.