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Can this email to my DHs account from Jennifer @ gmx.com just be a scam or something more?

85 replies

CurlyWurlyCake · 11/11/2014 22:09

DH left his work email account open on the joint iPad. I glanced at it and there was an email from Jennifer.

It read: I have some more topless pictures for you, would you like to talk about it. Then signed off as ytmmhgy.

The email address is something like [email protected]

Can this just be a scam email, to his large corporate company email? Where would they get his email address from?

He deleted the email from his phone and it's now in his trash. He hasn't mentioned it which makes me think it's not the first time. If I received something like that I would tell him in a OMG you will never guess the email I have just received Shock way.

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Carrie5608 · 11/11/2014 22:13

Most businesses get a load of these spam emails. eg. If your email is [email protected] the spam is sent out to random first names @ reallybigbusiness.co.uk

he may also be visiting dodgy sites but this does not prove it.

MrsHathaway · 11/11/2014 22:14

Maybe he gets a lot of spam - I certainly don't tell DH about every spam email I get unless it's particularly convincing and I'm reporting it.

Hope it's nothing.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 11/11/2014 22:15

It's spam. I get them advising me of ways to increase my penis size. I'm pretty sure I don't have a penis

PatriciaHolm · 11/11/2014 22:16

Pretty standard spam I would imagine. Corporate emails are easy to get hold of -people sell them, they are easy to guess, they tend to be online on business sites. I wouldn't think to mention getting it, it's a frequent occurrence.

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 11/11/2014 22:16

I'm a woman and get similar emails

wrapsuperstar · 11/11/2014 22:16

It sounds spammy (my DP has had spam along similar lines, as have I) but impossible to know from what you say. Have you tried googling the email address?

Jackie0 · 11/11/2014 22:16

Don't even upset yourself about it. It's just spam.

ScrambledEggAndToast · 11/11/2014 22:19

Sounds very spam like

HonoraryOctonaut · 11/11/2014 22:21

I get emails like that all the time (and I don't sign up to or browse any dodgy sites either so I don't know where they come from). I get them in my 'Others' folder on FB too. I just delete them automatically as they are so frequent that they don't register to me anymore.

skaen · 11/11/2014 22:21

I've had similar. Not male, definitely not interested.

DiscoDancer · 11/11/2014 22:21

I used to get these too. Apparently they could help me get erections. Hmm Definitely spam.

CurlyWurlyCake · 11/11/2014 22:22

Very relieved to see everyone agreeing to just spam. My spam is only ever inviting me to corporate events never had an invite to increase my non existent penis before though!

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SophieBarringtonWard · 11/11/2014 22:22

I've had very similar emails. I wouldn't mention them to my DH as they are just spam...

mumwithanipad · 11/11/2014 22:24

Spam. Both myself and dh get these.

alabasterangel · 11/11/2014 22:55

My work addy gets tons of medical pharmaceutical ones, with deliberate misspelling to avoid filters. I have no clue why. IT seem powerless!!

I regularly fear that while in the middle of a web conference where I am sharing my screen, my email notifier will pop up with 'I have so many of the best toools to give you a rok hard boner' or similar.....

WallBox · 11/11/2014 23:00

I get lots of similar stuff, ignore.

nozzz · 11/11/2014 23:02

Any reason to doubt your DH would tell you the truth OP?

AnyFucker · 11/11/2014 23:03

I am a right suspicious bastard, but that sounds like spam

Icantwaituntilxmas · 11/11/2014 23:05

@gmx emails are normally spam emails.

dorasee · 11/11/2014 23:05

Total spam. We get this stuff. It's nonsense. Don't click on any attachments.

mausmaus · 11/11/2014 23:05

I get emails like that, along with offers for blue pills and gambling.

fruitloopsandfruitshoots · 11/11/2014 23:06

Another one saying spam here! I have had rubbish like that, and my company has supposedly got a watertight firewall!

Momagain1 · 11/11/2014 23:07

SPAM, Spam, Spam, Spam! Spaaam, wonderful Spaaam!

I regularly get offers from big-breasted women. And, since living in California, huge amounts of Spam in Spanglish offering me I dont know what.

Showy · 11/11/2014 23:08

[email protected] is nearly always spam ime.

lougle · 11/11/2014 23:09

@gmx.com is a legit email extension (my DH's main email address is [email protected]) and gmx are similar to Hotmail.

Having said that -it's clearly spam.

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