@Anonymous wrote:The images are hotlinked from their server, which means when your email client opens, the images are pulled from their server. If you were offline and opened it for the first time, it would have been blank. So all they had to do was change the image they had on their server and any time you opened it, it would show the new image.
This. ^^^
It only looks like your email* is in your mailbox. It's not.
In fact, only the link to a file that contains a picture of your email is in there. That picture can be changed out at any time. That's done for a host of legitimate reasons and is not in and of itself sleazy. I prepare email blasts from time to time and do this in all of them.
But changing the entire meaning of the image that your email link links out to, that is pretty slimy. I can kinda see why they did it as an expeditious way of "removing" their original email. But it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And for users who don't understand the technology (and shouldn't have to in order to rely upon bank email!), it's downright creepy, and can easily lead one to believe they've been hacked or something.
Not cool!
*edited to clarify that most of your email will be in your box. Email that is or contains images will be partially in, and partially out. Some email contains substantially all of its content in image/s. What's been posted here looks like that flavor.
