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To: toddlintown
People who open .doc ANY attachments on e-mails, especially from people they don't know, are idiots.

There, fixed it.

I'm preaching to the converted, but I'm still going to stress NEVER NEVER NEVER open ANY attachment from ANYONE unless you have knowledge it's on its way. Even then, a codeword of some sort in the subject line is recommended.

(JMHO, not aN IT guy, just been burned one too many times. ALL email I get is first checked out online at my ISP's webmail and dealt with from there. Only after it's been screened do I allow it onto this 'puter.

47 posted on 01/19/2007 2:51:01 PM PST by Don W (Stoneage man survived thousands of years of bitter-cold ice. Modern man WILLsurvive global warming.)
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To: Don W

I just got an email tonight from my "bank". Logos, official colors, all the fine print at the bottom, proud sponser of the Olympics, etc.

It was a long letter (to make it look offical no doubt) that said my account was not up-to-date and that I needed to update my password, etc. or I wouldn't be able to make any computer transactions and my account would be closed.

Putting the cursor on "clik here" came up with some weird url with .bankname_registration/update/blahblahblah.

Of course I didn't click it, and have warned my wife in the past about this stuff too. I just wonder about all the poor folks that DO get scammed by this stuff. (And no - most banks are not looking for an easy way to CLOSE your account!)


50 posted on 01/19/2007 11:09:53 PM PST by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
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