Postcard E-mail Scam you've been getting some strange e-mails in your Inbox lately. Am I right? Well, those e-mails are part of a new scam that is going around these days. It's going by the name of the "Postcard Scam," but there are various versions of it that may have found its way to your e-mail Inbox.
If you receive one of these e-mails in your Inbox, the subject will say something like "You've received a postcard from a family member" or something similar to that. There have also been some that say something about an e-card, a greeting or even one specifying a special holiday (like the Fourth of July, for example). The senders of this scam have also varied. These spam e-mails have come from Hallmark, Greetings123, eCards, GreetingCards.com and more.
If you open the e-mail, it will tell you that you've been sent a postcard and there will be a link you can click on to go and preview it. But, if you click on that link, you're putting yourself at risk for a potential virus or malware infestation. Once you click on the link, the scammers know your address is a real one and they can start sending you malicious material at any time. So, although these e-mails look tempting, don't click on that link! Be extra careful not to fall for this trick. Like I always say, if the e-mail looks suspicious, just delete it as fast as you can. It's better to be safe than sorry, don't you think?!
Jury Duty Scam The scam actually starts out with a phone call from the scammer. They tell you they work for the local court and that you have failed to show up for your jury duty assignment. The scammer then goes on to tell you that a warrant has been issued for your arrest.
Of course, by this time, you are in panic and when they ask you for your information to verify everything, you give it to them right away. This information includes your social security number, your birth date and quite possibly, your credit card number. You know, everything the scammer needs to commit identity theft. It's an easy way to catch you off guard and when you're upset, you're more likely to give out your personal information. It's a win-win situation for the scammer.
Bracketing in Word
You know, the people who can create documents with things that look like this:
Have you ever wondered how "they" do it?
Of course, I'm referring to the brackets that allow you to group items. Ever wonder where people are getting them from?
I mean, there's one on the keyboard, but you've got to sincerely doubt that it can be manipulated that way, don't you think?
And you'd be right. It didn't come from the keyboard.
These brackets come from the Drawing Tools.
You'll have to open the Drawing Toolbar to get to this one. (Either click the Drawing button on the Standard toolbar or right click over any toolbar and select Drawing from the list).
Any way you get there, once it's open, you're looking for the AutoShapes menu.
In the list, you'll need to access the Basics Shapes submenu.
Maintenance
Want to change some of your e-mail settings in Outlook Express? Maybe things just aren't going the way you want them to within your e-mail and you just need to do some things differently. Well, that's no problem. Let's do it!
Open up Outlook Express and go to Tools, Options. Once there, click on the Maintenance tab. In this box, you can do a lot of cleaning up, so to speak, in your e-mail program.
You can choose to have all of your e-mails deleted every time you exit out of OE, you can choose to purge some of them and there are also some options in there if you use a newsgroup.
If you are part of a newsgroup, you can have OE delete all of the messages you have already read or you can choose when to have them deleted. Just use the number box to pick how many days you want to wait before the messages are completely cleared out. You can go as low as zero or as high as you so choose!
A couple of other things you can do for maintenance is clean up any downloaded messages that might be in your system. If you want to do that, click on the Clean Up Now button. You can also change the location of your store folder, which is where your messages are stored. If you want to change that, click on the Store Folder button.
To make any changes, just use the checkboxes and check it if you want it or uncheck it if you don't. It's as simple as that. Now your e-mail will be all cleaned out as you prefer. Isn't that a great feeling?!
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