Re: Email viruses info needed
Re: Email viruses info needed
- Subject: Re: Email viruses info needed
- From: Paul Richards <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 17:10:51 -0400
Elsa, the spoofs are very slick sometimes. The two I see most lately
are PayPal and eBay. My best advice to anyone is:
1. Do you actually have an account with the business supposedly sending
the message?
2. If so, was the message sent to an e-mail address that is actually
registered to your account with that business?
3. If so, go to the web site of the company. DO NOT do so by using any
link or address or URL in the suspect e-mail. Look for a link to report
suspicious e-mail or some other way of contacting a real person to
check out the e-mail before you take any action.
For eBay you can go to their Security Center using the link at the
bottom of their home page, or go straight to their "spot the spoofs"
tutorial and reporting at
http://pages.ebay.com/education/spooftutorial/ instead. The tutorial is
pretty good. you can also FORWARD the suspect eBay e-mail to
email@hidden and wait for a response before you take any action. If
it is a spoof, you will get a reply telling you so. If it is
legitimate, they will tell you that too.
PayPal has somewhat similar resources at the Security Center link from
their home page. They also have an eCommerce Safety Guide PDF there
that's pretty good.
On a related note, here are a few scam resources that are pretty good:
Scambusters
http://www.scambusters.org/
and their tips PDF
http://dl.scambusters.org/ScamBusters1.pdf
Scam-O-Rama
http://www.scamorama.com/
Scam Self-check
http://www.scamorama.com/ladchecklist.html
National Fraud Watch Information Center
http://www.fraud.org/
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