Dubious email

[snorri]

I have just received an "Invitation from a loved one" from a company called 123greetings.com who ask me to open and download to view the message. I have Googled 123.com and it appears to be a genuine company.
Does anyone know of this company?
Should I open or leave well alone?

 

[phil_hg_uk]

If your not sure bin it if it is important the person who sent it will soon let you know

 

[col]

I have just received an "Invitation from a loved one" from a company called 123greetings.com who ask me to open and download to view the message. I have Googled 123.com and it appears to be a genuine company.
Does anyone know of this company?
Should I open or leave well alone?

If Im not expecting it, or dont know the reason it has been sent, dont touch it, it could be a virus or just spam.

 

[Thomk]

I have just received an "Invitation from a loved one" from a company called 123greetings.com who ask me to open and download to view the message. I have Googled 123.com and it appears to be a genuine company.
Does anyone know of this company?
Should I open or leave well alone?

I would bin it. If it is genuine it's a very stupid way to contact someone given that it "looks" like spam.

 

[ianrauk]

If your not sure bin it if it is important the person who sent it will soon let you know

This...

 

[Alun]

+1 Bin it !

 

[Ian H]

I'll bet it only looks like it comes from 123greetings. If you view it as plain text you'll probably find the link is actually some entirely different URL.

 

[lulubel]

Open and download? Probably a virus.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Open and download? Probably a virus.

Its suspicious, I'd delete it, it could be anything.

 

[ianrauk]

I never open unsolicited email..straight in the bin...

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Agreed, bin it - Anything that asks you to download will certainly be a virus or trojan.

 

[slowmotion]

Bin, no question about it.

 

[snorri]

Thank you all, it's binned now.
I usually bin these type of things immediately, but somehow hesitated with this one and decded to seek the opinion of the panel.

 

[col]

I have recieved an email and link from a name of a friend, not sure how they get those, but deleted as I knew they wouldnt do that.

 

[Ian H]

I could send you an email that looked superficially as if it came from any address including your own. It's easy to check where it really came from by checking the message source - you'll find it somewhere in the menu - it's under 'View' in Thunderbird.