Well, Lelia, I don't know if it need be that scary.  If we remember that
banks and internet providers, etc., aren't going to ask for confidential
information to be either sent by email or via a website we click on via
email, we can just laugh and delete the message.  I've gotten several of
this type of message within the past week or two.  I think the funniest one
was one supposedly from Earthlink, telling me my password had been
compromised and to go to their site by following the link in the email, and
enter my password or my account information or something.  I knew it was a
fraud already, because Earthlink doesn't ask us to do things like this, but
I looked at the headers.  The reply to address was something like
[log in to unmask]  <lol>  Yeah, right!  Earlier I got one saying
that our Citybank information had been compromised and we should
immediately go to the website and enter all sorts of information.  The
delete key did the trick.  Let's see, what was the one I got yesterday?  Oh
yeah, something about my payment to Earthlink hadn't been received, and I
should click on the link immediately and update my info with them, and if
they didn't receive it in 24 hours, they'd regretfully have to terminate my
account.  Delete.  <grin>  What's really amusing is when they send this
same message to my additional email addresses, as though they were separate
accounts.  I think they try to play on people's fear and knee-jerk
reactions, knowing that if they can get people to act without thinking,
they can get all kinds of information out of them.  Unfortunately, the
tactic must be working, as they keep doing it.

Peggy

At 06:13 PM 1/22/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Whoah thats kind of scary.
>
>Lelia
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:41 AM
>Subject: spam
>
>
> > Boy, I have always gotten spam but the level of daily spam messages is
> > amazing these days.  Half my messages this morning were spam related.
>It's
> > been that way for weeks, too.  Sandy got one the other day concerning our
> > account at the U S Bank here in Denver which was frozen due to illegal
> > activity.  I had heard about this one on the news earlier in the week so
> > enjoyed going in and reading it on her computer.  They wanted you to click
> > on this link to go to their website in order to give them your bank
>account
> > number, pin numbers, password, and other related information.  Of course,
>it
> > was for the purpose of identity theft.  The server for this scam has been
> > traced by at least one source and it is on a computer in Moscow, Russia.
> > Interesting.  By the way, we due have a couple of accounts at the U S Bank
> > here in Denver but we have never used their online banking for anything
>and
> > I have never given the bank our email addresses.  A couple of weeks ago,
>it
> > was Citi Bank customers getting this same email.
> >
> > Phil.
> >
> > Crazy For Jesus
> > www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
> >

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