JHZR2
Staff member
Strange email I got today...
My spam filters work well, in that I get very few. Maybe one message slips through a month into my inbox, and either they're pretty well done phishing emails, or they just randomly make it through, but are easy to pick out. But today one came through. Was a spam message "from" a close friend, but it had her maiden name (and NOT her email address when looking at the details).
Most of the message was irrelevant. Some babble about not using Facebook, and some link that obviously I didn't click on.
The strange thing was the very end. It said:
jxpolyvoltine creeper You've heard a lot about brushless power tools on ToolGuyd and elsewhere. Here's a brief discussion … unparalleled overbillow
The thing that surprised me was the indication of ToolGuyd - I was just on his site two days ago, looking at brushless circular saw reviews. Related somehow? If so, that concerns me.
I'm only operating on my phone, on the AT&T network, using warp and 1.1.1.1 from cloudflare. Phone is running iOS 13.3, latest version. As I understand it, apps are sandboxed, so even a rogue app couldn't get my browsing history or cookies.
As far as I know, ToolGuyd is legit. It's not just one of those amazon link through sites that give generic info based upon amazon reviews.
So is this a freak occurrence? Am I reading into this too much?
If not, what should I check? To reiterate, I'm only running safari on my iPhone running 13.3, so all the malwarebytes and whatnot for PCs are largely irrelevant.
My spam filters work well, in that I get very few. Maybe one message slips through a month into my inbox, and either they're pretty well done phishing emails, or they just randomly make it through, but are easy to pick out. But today one came through. Was a spam message "from" a close friend, but it had her maiden name (and NOT her email address when looking at the details).
Most of the message was irrelevant. Some babble about not using Facebook, and some link that obviously I didn't click on.
The strange thing was the very end. It said:
jxpolyvoltine creeper You've heard a lot about brushless power tools on ToolGuyd and elsewhere. Here's a brief discussion … unparalleled overbillow
The thing that surprised me was the indication of ToolGuyd - I was just on his site two days ago, looking at brushless circular saw reviews. Related somehow? If so, that concerns me.
I'm only operating on my phone, on the AT&T network, using warp and 1.1.1.1 from cloudflare. Phone is running iOS 13.3, latest version. As I understand it, apps are sandboxed, so even a rogue app couldn't get my browsing history or cookies.
As far as I know, ToolGuyd is legit. It's not just one of those amazon link through sites that give generic info based upon amazon reviews.
So is this a freak occurrence? Am I reading into this too much?
If not, what should I check? To reiterate, I'm only running safari on my iPhone running 13.3, so all the malwarebytes and whatnot for PCs are largely irrelevant.