At my Gmail account I rarely get SPAM. Here is a screen capture of an email I received.
Do you feel it is safe to open?
When in doubt, delete.
Sure looks like spam (or malware) to me.
Absolutely SPAM.
“when pushing here” is a big giveaway.
Thanks all - deleting unopened.
When you hover the mouse over the “here” in “push here”, you see a URL.
You can tell its not email when its not to a gmail URL.
( something.gmail.com/<whatever> )
Email has either the email that you can see, or it has attachments, no email program will ever say “cant show it but I can show it”, thats absurd. Either it shows it or leaves it as an attachment.
An attachment might still be spam, or contain a virus. Why would you get such an email from a stranger ? why would they send an attachment ?
I would delete it just based on the bad grammar, even if I knew the sender. For starters, I’ve never seen an email that actually needed to be clicked because it couldn’t be displayed, other than from a corporate mailing list because it’s just one giant graphic and I had images turned off.
Besides, unless you’re outsides the US, we ‘click’ links, we don’t ‘push’ them (And some other mistakes).
Delete it, move on. If it’s from someone you know, it wouldn’t be the ‘can’t display click here’ type, if it’s legit, it’s junk, if it’s spam, who cares.
It’s the spammiest spam that ever spammed its way down Spam Street, wearing a spam hat.
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Maybe not spam in the classic “advertise crap to unwilling victims” sense.
Googling the exact phraseology in OP’s link turns up a few hits as blogger.com comments, not emails (which is good, because who wants their email box showing up in google?).
I won’t follow the link in the blog comment version of the “here” thing, but it looks like a machine-generated link to a different domain. All of which is a common pattern for seeding victim machines with malware.
So you probably dodged an attempt to install a virus on your machine.
If you have to ask…
At work today I received a suspicious email. I was about to call IT to see if it was save to preview the attachment in Outlook (as opposed to opening it), when someone else forwarded the email to about 100 people (most of whom would likely not have received it the first time) warning them not to open it. Unfortunately, the omitted to remove the suspicious attachment!
That’s not SPAM… this is SPAM!
Technically, it is not spam. Spam is just the sending of unwanted emails selling something.
What that looks like to me is phishing. Phishing is sending a message with a “bait” inside that, if clicked, likely delivers a malware or ransomware, or some other unsavory bit, to the victims computer.
Or it could do this to you.
As is this!