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thanks for the explanation.
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hi experts,<br />
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&nbsp;one of my friend got an email like this below....<br />
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-----Original Message-----<br />
From: do_not_reply &lt;do_not_reply@ident.com&gt;<br />
To: amiracairo &lt;friend'semail@aol.com&gt;<br />
Sent: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 4:17 pm<br />
Subject: Patient Information Update<br />
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&lt;html&gt;&lt;body&gt;Your patient information has been updated on ash dental website. Please login to &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://www.ident.ws/ashrafabdelmalek?loc=i" rel="ugc">http://www.ident.ws/ashrafabdelmalek?loc=i</a>&quot;&gt;<a href="http://www.ident.ws/ash" rel="ugc">http://www.ident.ws/ash</a><br />
rafabdelmalek?loc=i&lt;/a&gt; to view your information.&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;<wbr /><br />
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Her husband owns a dental office names ash dental. When she click on the link it's her husband's dental office name and the address is correct BUT that is NOT his website. Everything else is incorrect obviously including the website is not his. <br />
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his website is this <a href="http://www.ashdental.com" rel="ugc">www.ashdental.com</a>. So what is happening here? Why did she get that email and why its taking her to a website that is supposely ash dental but it's not and the address is the correct one? <br />
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virus? spam?<br />
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help me explain this to her.
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hi experts,

 one of my friend got an email like this below....

-----Original Message-----
From: do_not_reply <do_not_reply@ident.com>
To: amiracairo <friend'semail@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 4:17 pm
Subject: Patient Information Update

<html><body>Your patient information has been updated on ash dental website. Please login to <a href="http://www.ident.ws/ashrafabdelmalek?loc=i">http://www.ident.ws/ash
rafabdelmalek?loc=i</a> to view your information.</body></html>


Her husband owns a dental office names ash dental. When she click on the link it's her husband's dental office name and the address is correct BUT that is NOT his website. Everything else is incorrect obviously including the website is not his. 

his website is this www.ashdental.com. So what is happening here? Why did she get that email and why its taking her to a website that is supposely ash dental but it's not and the address is the correct one? 

virus? spam?

help me explain this to her.

strange email - spam?

Various techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) vs. not rejecting all spam (false negatives) - and the associated costs in time and effort. Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by email administrators, those that can be automated by email senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.