The email you receive promises delivery of tasty snacks for a reasonable price. Should you try it? Here’s one example of why it would be better to skip the email promises about snacks and look for your own provider.
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The email I received came from an address using the domain “eatwell.top.” The domain extension was the first thing that made me suspicious. Why wasn’t this sender using a “.com”? The most obvious reason was they wanted to imitate a legitimate company. Indeed, there is an eatwell.com in this business. Eatwell Farms is a legitimate farm-to-table provider with a web store. It appears the sender of the email wanted to take advantage of the legitimate business’s reputation.
Snacks provider has no website
Next, I wanted to know if the sender of the email really did have a website. The short answer is, no website and no home page. There are, however, pages with specific purposes, i.e., to serve as phishing pages, download malware, or simply redirect you to another site. I also checked the registration date for the “.top” web address. The site had been registered just days ago.
This snacks provider is off to a bad start
Here are three reasons this email should be considered untrustworthy.
- It has been blacklisted by one major spam-monitoring service
- The email uses an image available from the web that does not appear to be associated with a legitimate company
- I never inquired about this “company” and the email was unexpected
How to find reputable providers of snacks
Don’t be tricked into a bad deal for a service many are finding to be helpful. There are plenty of options for healthy snacks from companies that deliver. If you’re looking for more information, here’s one post with a short review of five different services.
