{"id":463,"date":"2012-12-12T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T10:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/?p=463"},"modified":"2012-12-12T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T10:55:03","slug":"email-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Email mystery…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Email<\/a>I received the following email last night:<\/p>\n

———- Forwarded message ———-
\nFrom: Brittany McClaine <bmcclaine@ncpcharterschool.org>
\nDate: 11 December 2012 21:54
\nSubject: Loved your page! Special Thanks from Mrs.McClaine and Kids! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Hi There!<\/p>\n

I just wanted to send you a quick note on behalf of some of the kids in our After School program! We’ve been using your page ( http:\/\/digitalkatie.com\/bsl.htm ) quite a bit while going over an intro to Sign Language, it has been super helpful!<\/p>\n

The kids have a hearing impaired student in their class, and we thought it would be great if everyone was able to communicate on the same level \ud83d\ude42 As a Thank You, a couple of the students also found and wanted to pass along this family resource page to ASL: ( http:\/\/usinsurancenet.com\/family-health-reference-to-asl\/ )<\/p>\n

We’ve actually been using it just as much as your page and thought that maybe you would want to include it on your British Sign Language Links page! I was hesitant to email you at first but the kids keep asking if I’ve talked to you about it yet! (haha they’re so cute!)<\/p>\n

Would you possibly consider adding it for them? I would love to surprise them before we finish the unit next Friday, that their research find has actually benefited someone else! They would be so excited!…and I may even surprise them with a pizza party for doing such good research \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Thanks again!
\n-Brittany<\/p>\n

**************************************************************************************
\nBrittany McClaine
\nbmcclaine@ncpcharterschool.org
\nJean Massieu Academy<\/p>\n

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This email set my spidey sense tingling. \u00a0It seems like a spam email but I really wasn’t sure. \u00a0My main issue is this is an email supposedly from America so why would they be using a web page about BRITISH Sign Language??<\/p>\n

So, here’s a challenge – figure out if this is real. \u00a0Is there really a Brittany McClaine? \u00a0Does she work as a teacher? \u00a0Does the Jean Massieu Academy exist and is it part of NCP Charter School (the email address domain)? \u00a0Is this a standard spam email format and the same text is used pretending to be from different teachers and different schools?<\/p>\n

When you think you have an answer look at the clues I found online<\/a> to see if you’ve come up with the same deduction!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received the following email last night: ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Brittany McClaine <bmcclaine@ncpcharterschool.org> Date: 11 December 2012 21:54 Subject: Loved your page! Special Thanks from Mrs.McClaine and Kids! \ud83d\ude42 Hi There! I just wanted to send you a quick note on behalf of some of the kids in our After School program! We’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,9,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-internet-and-online-communication","category-internet-safety","category-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}