Hey you guys want to hear the latest? I am getting emails that say, and I quote,"
"You look really stupid, Curtis."Now if I were to click on why, or when, or who, or how, or where, -- I would fall into the trap. I just forward to the spam site at the U.S. government site:
spam@xxxxxxxand let them deal with it, if they ever do. In Eudora I can kind of "bounce" the message(s) to them instead of forward, it's called "redirect," and I can put all the "spam" messages in the junk folder, which Eudora uses to filter spam into by default. Then, there is a "turbo redirect" command I can use, which means I can highlight 100 messages at once and send them all to
spam@xxxxxxxand let the government folks handle it. People which do this kind of thing, as I said, should be damaged in ways which hurt them monetarily.
Curtis Delzer At 01:12 PM 5/31/2008, you wrote:
E, & u think changing your email address will keep it from happening again? It's called phishing (note spelling). It happens a lot. My advice is that: a) report it to the folks the email is reportedly from, e.g., if it purports to be from Bank of America, report it to them-- often these legitimate companies are very interested in trying to shut these folks down & actually devote resources to so doing; & b) Simply delete & don't panic. The truth is, I get these sometimes for places I don't even have an account with. These spammers have many methods by which to harvest emails. They don't really know who has an account where. They just hope they'll get lucky & find some1 gullible enough to do what they ask. Don't ever click on links provided in an email--go directly to the site where u have an account if u have questions. Most legitimate emails will include your name & never ask for identifying information. But panicking & changing your email address won't help. Just be cool. I understand it seems scarey sometimes, but these spammers aren't nearly as smart as it may at first appear. Whatever u do, don't reply to them, as they will then know they have a valid email address. On 5/31/08, Curtis Delzer <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Spammers try anything, just delete! really, just delete anything you > did not ask for. Bank of America doesn't send email of any type > unless you have some notifying going on, from them which you must set > up. I have a B OF A account and never got anything from them I did > not want. Remember, I said "from them," so if it begins by saying > something like your account has been compromised, it has not, they > will never send you such email, nor will anyone else that is ligit. > Spammer should have their balls cut off, nice and slow. > Curtis Delzer > > At 04:46 AM 5/31/2008, you wrote: >>I just got a message from somebody claiming to be Bank of America. >> >>It said somebody tried to access my account. It said I needed to go >>to a site and do things. >>Luckily the person writing the message made several spelling errors, >>and used a email I do not have listed with a bank. >> >>My friend also got a call from Bank of America yesterday. >> >>Somebody claiming to be his daughter had called the bank. She had >>his social security number and address as well as birthday and other >>identifying information. >> >>She said he had died and wanted a check cut by Bank of America. >> >>He is alive. He has no daughter to the best of his knowledge (grin) >> >>Please be careful folks. >> >>I may change my email address. >> >>This stuff is getting close to home. >> >>E. >> >>To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >>bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a >>list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject >> line. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of > available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > -- Jackie McBride Please join my fight against breast cancer <http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=1790196&pg=personal&fr_id=3489> & Check out my homepage at: www.abletec.serverheaven.net To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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