“What are you doing?
“To join or to see who invited you, check the attachment.”
Hmmm. That looked interesting. After I clicked on it (in virtual environment), Yahoo renamed the attachment from “Invitation+Card.zip” to “Neutral.gif” and gave a warning:
Nice work Yahoo.
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