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To: lainde

1,605 posted on 09/27/2004 5:29:28 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: ValerieUSA; yall
Good morning, everyone! Lovely photos as usual, Val!

Most of us here are savvy enough not to fall for such a scam, but in case any of you haven't seen this one, this is just a warning. In the past couple of months, I've gotten several emails purporting to be from a major bank and urging me to click on the link and up date my personal information for "security purposes" and to keep my account from being suspended.

One of them was supposedly from Bank of America, which is the bank that issued one of my credit cards. I was suspicious, so I called them, and they had me forward the email to a spoof@ address. The man I talked to said that these things are increasing and the scammers are fishing hard for naive people to go to their websites and give up their personal information. Identity theft, of course. I've gotten several more since, from CitiBank (another one I do business with) and at least one more that I can't remember and don't do business with.

DON'T CLICK ON ANYTHING IN THOSE MESSAGES!

I noticed that if the cursor is anywhere in the message, and not just position on apparent links, the cursor turns into the little hand symbol, so don't click on anything. Delete it, or send it to your bank's security people if they are interested.

1,609 posted on 09/27/2004 7:02:09 AM PDT by .38sw
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