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Topic: Yahoo Scam? |
Ken Lang
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Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 5:30 am |
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Just got an email.
From:
This sender is DomainKeys verified
"Dear yahoo account Owner," <jkteen>
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To:
undisclosed-recipients
Dear yahoo account Owner,
This message is from yahoo messaging center to all yahoo email accountowners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center.We
are deleting all yahoo email account to create more space for new accounts.To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below so that
we will know that it's a present used account. Your response should be sent to admin manager Email:upgrade.team_2009@yahoo.com.hk
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CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
Email Username :
EMAIL Password :
Date of Birth :
Country or Territory :
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Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within five days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account
permanently.Thank you for using
yahoo.Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Thanks,
yahoo Upgrade team
I don't trust this one.
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 6:09 am
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Ken, You are right not to trust that one. Whenever you get an email from someone who wants to know your password, you KNOW that it's a scam. I have received many of those on my rogers/yahoo account. I forward them, headers and all, to abuse'at'rogers.com
If you should make the mistake of clicking on the email for whatever reason, go IMMEDIATELY into your account and change your password.
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 10:32 am
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This is a known scam. Delete any such emails. Yahoo does not need to ask you for your password, as they already know it. They do not need your identifying details either, as they already have those, if you inputted them into your Yahoo profile. That would only be if you used paid premium services.
Furthermore, neither Yahoo, or Hotmail are going to run out of disk space! If they need more space they add more hard drives and virtual disks. What a bunch of bull! It's amazing that anybody could fall for this come-on.
Since most Yahoo accounts are free, who cares if they were to actually delete a free account?
The only accounts that Yahoo has deleted recently are the free Geocities websites, which have been terminated permanently.
Finally, if you are overly annoyed by the type of spam and scams you receive, you can report them to SpamCop, after signing up for a free reporting account.
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 12:45 pm
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Maybe I screwed up. I gave them my username, password, DOB, etc... and then someone from Nigeria wired $12 million to my bank account. 
Last edited by Rick Campbell on 15 Sep 2009 7:31 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 3:29 pm
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| Rick Campbell wrote: |
| Maybe I screwed up. I gave them my username, password, BOD, etc... and then someone from Nigeria wired $12 million to my bank account. :) |
The only time Nigerians have wired money to North Americans, or other Westerners, is when a 419 baiter has reverse scammed the scammers! Those usually amounted to a couple of hundred dollars at most. The Nigerians have won most of the scam battles so far.
It was through the efforts of our own Bobby D. Hunter that the Nigerian scammers were chased off of the SGF forums. Hats off to Bobby and a virtual MGD raised to him for his tireless efforts to hunt down slimeball game.
BTW: Bobby D. Hunter's efforts led to the publishing of the now world famous Nigerian Blocklist, used to block all Nigerian traffic from Apache hosted websites.
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Rick Campbell
From:
Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 7:30 pm
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| Rick Campbell wrote: |
| Maybe I screwed up. I gave them my username, password, DOB, etc... and then someone from Nigeria wired $12 million to my bank account. |
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Cal Sharp
From:
the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 16 Sep 2009 6:44 am
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From MSNBC:
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IBM's midyear security report found that phishing accounted for just 0.1 percent of all spam in the first six months of this year. In the same period in 2008, phishing made up 0.2 percent to 0.8 percent of all spam.
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Looks like phishing might be falling off, but as long as people continue to even notice it it'll probably never go away. People still fall for the famous Pigeon Drop, too.
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