Can'tstopcruising Posted March 9, 2013 #1 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Today received an e-mail in my spam folder, supposedly from Celebrity. It says An invitation to a survey. I was afraid to open it. Has anyone else received it? Is it legit? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phxazzcruisers Posted March 9, 2013 #2 Share Posted March 9, 2013 We have not received one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodle Posted March 9, 2013 #3 Share Posted March 9, 2013 I recieved one last week asking about my cruise from last year, it linked to celebrities site. I ran the link on my Mac though just in case but it seems legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSPOOL Posted March 9, 2013 #4 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Today received an e-mail in my spam folder' date=' supposedly from Celebrity. It says An invitation to a survey. [/i'] I was afraid to open it. Has anyone else received it? Is it legit? Thanks. "afraid"? why bother even if it was legit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Can'tstopcruising Posted March 10, 2013 Author #5 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Now, others have posted they received the survey. Too late. I deleted it! Perhaps I should have headed it Survey instead of Spam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noblepa Posted March 10, 2013 #6 Share Posted March 10, 2013 One way to determine if a mailing is legit: float your mouse over any links, but DO NOT click on it. Internet Explorer and most browsers will show the actual destination in the lower left corner of your screen. If it doe not look right, trash the memo. Remember, only the portion of a URL between the // and the / are the website. Anything after that is just a folder or page within that site. So, http://www.celebritycruisescom/folder/page.html is OK, but http://my.scamsite.ru/celebritycruisescom/folder/page.html is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredflint Posted March 10, 2013 #7 Share Posted March 10, 2013 if you have a smartphone or table you are usually safe opening emails if you are not sure you can also copy and past the link into google then look at it as has been stated looked for tricks like a 0 for an O and redirections. Where I work the security folks are always sending out fake spams to test the employees if you open it is send you to a link on why you should not open unknown emails, 3 opens and your manager talk to you. Gmail has a pretty good filter to so if you have a gmail account send it there, or also if you work for a large company send it to your work email. My company spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year blocking Spam so they should be able to check yours. This article here is pretty good http://www.switched.com/2009/10/26/10-ways-to-spot-an-e-mail-scam/ there are so many different email programs in use it is impossible to tell you how to check headers etc you can look here http://www.iptrackeronline.com/email-header-analysis.php sorry for being so long but I know more about computers than cruising :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Can'tstopcruising Posted March 10, 2013 Author #8 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Than you all for your helpful information. Actually, I think if I open an e-mail, but don't click on anything, I can't get a virus. Still, if it looks fishy, I don't like to open it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jomf Posted March 10, 2013 #9 Share Posted March 10, 2013 It's quite funny, I thought the post was going to be about food being served onboard! We here in England have a meat product called Spam. I was having a daft moment.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgnova Posted March 10, 2013 #10 Share Posted March 10, 2013 It's quite funny, I thought the post was going to be about food being served onboard!We here in England have a meat product called Spam. I was having a daft moment.. :) Right - I was afraid that since beef checks failed as a replacement for chateaubriand they were introducing Spam next. :D j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeaBag Posted March 10, 2013 #11 Share Posted March 10, 2013 It is real. I got one too about Captains Club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Can'tstopcruising Posted March 10, 2013 Author #12 Share Posted March 10, 2013 It's quite funny, I thought the post was going to be about food being served onboard!We here in England have a meat product called Spam. I was having a daft moment.. :) Thanks for the good laugh! We have Spam,too. (I think!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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