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[fudgem]

I received an e mail from my sister today, regarding free M&S vouchers for forwarding the email to 8 friends.  I immediately smelled a rat and checked on line, and found it was a scam, as I expected

http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/06/markschain.html

The odd thing is that when I went to look at the e mail again, although I had deleted it, it wasn't in my deleted folder.  In fact it isn't anywhere.  Could there have been something dodgy in it which caused it to act like that?

I did of course let my sister know it was a scam, but not before she'd spread several e mail addresses about

[roseway]

The odd thing is that when I went to look at the e mail again, although I had deleted it, it wasn't in my deleted folder.  In fact it isn't anywhere.  Could there have been something dodgy in it which caused it to act like that?

It's quite possible that your email program is configured to permanently delete items in the deleted folder when you exit from the program.

[fudgem]

no, everything else is still there.  I periodically go in and empty it