# Is this SPAM? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 21, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461 "2016-07-21T02:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/1 "2016-07-21T02:31:08Z")
At my Gmail account I rarely get SPAM. [Here is a screen capture](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/319eccc3-8693-4bc4-b607-eee8f76e2a33.png) of an email I received. Do you feel it is safe to open? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/2 "2016-07-21T02:34:01Z")
When in doubt, delete. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/3 "2016-07-21T02:34:34Z")
Sure looks like spam (or malware) to me. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/4 "2016-07-21T02:56:01Z")
Absolutely SPAM. “when pushing here” is a big giveaway. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/5 "2016-07-21T02:57:06Z")
Thanks all - deleting unopened. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/6 "2016-07-21T05:07:46Z")
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/](http://something.gmail.com/)\ ) 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 ? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/7 "2016-07-21T05:48:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/8 "2016-07-21T10:34:53Z")
It’s the spammiest spam that ever spammed its way down Spam Street, wearing a spam hat. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/9 "2016-07-21T11:45:10Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > It’s the spammiest spam that ever spammed its way down Spam Street, wearing a spam hat. Bloody Vikings ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/10 "2016-07-21T16:05:09Z")
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](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/11 "2016-07-21T17:28:42Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/12 "2016-07-21T17:44:40Z")
That’s not SPAM… [this is SPAM](https://bloglette.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/october-2011-010.jpg)! ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/13 "2016-07-21T19:03:57Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) to you. ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-spam/760461/14 "2016-07-21T20:52:46Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > That’s not SPAM… [this is SPAM](https://bloglette.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/october-2011-010.jpg)! As is [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE)!