Strange email

[rapmarks]

I received an email stating that my yahoo account will be terminated because I'd suspicious activity. They want me to click a link. The word yahoo does not appear in the email. I am not clicking on the link but I am going to be lost if account I have had since 1988 is terminated


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[Talent312]

Totally BOGUS!

Did you get the notice about Yahoo being taken over by Verizon?
IMHO, that's far more worrisome. As one commentator said --

"AOL, Yahoo!, and CompuServe made up the three biggest internet companies of the 90s... Verizon must [plan to use] a time machine to go back to the 90s and dominate the early days of the world wide web."

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[DeniseM]

It is a phishing attempt - if you click the link you will get hacked.

 

[rapmarks]

I am not touching it, but I see I have been in California a few times in the last few months, and never knew it, so tomorrow I go to a different computer and change my password.

 

[moonstone]

If you ever get a suspicious email wanting you to click on a link there's an easy way to check its validity. Just hover your cursor over the link (don't click!) and in the bottom right corner of your screen the address of where that link will take you will appear (don't click there either!). If the destination isn't where the email says you will be directed to then you know its a bogus email.

~Diane

 

[easyrider]

I received a password reset dealio today. The idiot wants me to use a link to reset my passwords as I requested. Funny thing is I didn't request it and the senders email address is not right.

Bill

 

[jackio]

I got one about my Hotwire account. I haven't used Hotwire in ages.

 

[stmartinfan]

I've gotten a rash of phishing emails recently supposedly from banks and other organizations where I don't have accounts! I find it interesting to carefully read the emails to see how many errors in grammar and punctuation I can find. The scammers have gotten better stealing the logos and "look" of the companies they are spoofing, but most appear to be written by people whose first language isn't English because there are so many errors in the text. I suppose spell check finds the obvious errors but it's odd ones like forgetting to make something past tense or plural. It's a carry over from too much proof reading in my prior career!

 

[MuranoJo]

Several friends & family have gotten recent emails regarding Amazon orders which had been cancelled. None of us ordered anything recently. Total scam or phishing expedition--don't click their links.

 

[WalnutBaron]

Be even more careful of so-called "spear-phishing". This scheme involves nefarious thieves who get hold of your email address and those of your close friends or relatives or co-workers, who you obviously trust. After observing your associates' writing style and activities for a few days or even weeks, you will get an email with a link from your "friend" and since you trust the friend, you' re much more likely to click on it. You're not only hacked, but it may be weeks or months before you even realize it.

 

[x3 skier]

Haven't gotten an offer from a Nigerian Prince's Solicitor to get a Gazzilion $ deposited to my bank in quite a while. I guess all the funds have been allocated. So sorry I missed the bonanza.

Cheers

 

[rapmarks]

Be even more careful of so-called "spear-phishing". This scheme involves nefarious thieves who get hold of your email address and those of your close friends or relatives or co-workers, who you obviously trust. After observing your associates' writing style and activities for a few days or even weeks, you will get an email with a link from your "friend" and since you trust the friend, you' re much more likely to click on it. You're not only hacked, but it may be weeks or months before you even realize it.

I think this is what happened to me. I see I was hacked earlier today again, last year my broker called and he received an email from me asking him to wire $85,000


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[silentg]

I received an email, asking me to update my phone number, for RCI. I have not changed or disconnected my phone so I deleted the email

 

[geekette]

Yahoo has had suspicious activity for years and has never de-activated accounts over it!

If something sounds plausible, navigate to the site the way you always do or call the business the way you always do. Crap that shows up in the inbox unsolicited trying to get you to take action is often fake. Don't fall for it.

 

[Talent312]

I just love Snapple's "We're going to be rich" commercial.

 

[MuranoJo]

Several friends & family have gotten recent emails regarding Amazon orders which had been cancelled. None of us ordered anything recently. Total scam or phishing expedition--don't click their links.

Today I get a nice message from "USPS Delivery":
(Subject header) Your package (#) has been returned.

Didn't bother to read it, but know it's a scam. Add it to the recent Amazon cancellation order scams hitting us recently.

 

[mdurette]

I received one from Chase the other day telling me a $12K purchase was charged to my account, but they rejected it because they believed it to be fraudulent. The instructed me to click on the link and confirm it was. Email had the Chase logo - but didn't have my name or last 4 of my account number like it normally does. I deleted it and logged into Chase directly to check all my messages from them there. Nothing.

The rule of thumb.....never click on links or open attachments in email. If you are getting email from a known source, then you most likely have an account set up with them. Just go directly to their site.

 

[easyrider]

I finally received the strangest and most intriguing email ever for me. It is from a Russian Professor that is researching my family. This person has correctly traced my family tree movement from the Caucasus Mountains to the Russian River and Alaska and is looking for more information on my branch of the tree. I bet if I respond I will be the heir to some vast fortune left to the family by my great great uncle Vitally or some crap like that.

Bill