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Subject:Re: PayPal Scam phising/spoofs (NVC)
From:Wil Haslup
Date:Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:54:45 -0500

John Carpenter wrote:

> Hi All,
> I've heard that Spammers can even tell if you open the E-mail?
> I never open Any emails from Any of My Accounts.
> I always go to my account at the Web Site.

The way anyone sending an e-mail may be aware if you open it is only if
the mail includes images and you have your client set to automatically
download the images.  In Thunderbird you can set it to not automatically
get the images from their server.  You can still read any real text
they've sent.

--

Wil

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