This is my second post on the subject, after reading messages from Neal, Bill, and Lee. What you tell me is comforting. I will definitely incorporate Neal's suggestion; I will think twice about virus protection; and I suspect that one reason I was victimized was that I had an undue number of addresses in my address book. Spammers like to have access to as many addresses as possible. As we all know, anytime you get an e-mail from anyone, their address goes into your address book. Mine was cluttered with one-time contacts, people who have since died, names I no longer recognize, etc. I knew there was deadwood, but pruning it was not a high priority. Now it is. I still have issues to settle with gmail; meantime, much of my time is spent thanking those kind, wonderful people who e-mailed or called to express their concern about my supposed "plight" (so far as I know, no one was taken in by the attempted scam). Most knew that I would never have written such an e-mail as the original scam letter – I've published five books, several dozen articles and stories in various periodicals, and probably 40,000 letters in my lifetime. Never have I written anything "with tears in my eyes." !!!
Tnx once more, Nolan
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