Digital BW, The Print

Bobbo

Some off-topic messages are worth receiving, as is yours.  Thanks for the heads-up.

Simon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bobbo 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 5:58 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] OT but urgent


  Hi, all. To those of us on many lists, you'll see this again.

  Be vewy, vewy careful. On Friday, I received an e-mail purporting to come
  from Paypal. It looked quite official, with all the usual lengthy Paypal
  links, ads, thisses and thats. At the top was this sentence (recaptured as
  written, including odd capitalization and lousy punctuation):

  Security    Measures!


  Dear user,

  You must update Your account and confirm membership. If You won't do it
  Your PayPal will be locked!

  I clicked on the link and voila! I arrived at an UNSECURED (http, not
  https) site tha asked for such niceties as my email, password, social
  security number, credit card, expiration, card verification, and my bank
  account number. The site looks like a real Paypal site. Of course, I
  immediately fired off an email to Paypal to warn them, and then forwarded
  the e-mail to the FBI.

  No reputable organization will ever initiate contact to ask you for your
  password. Paypal is pretty good at security, and i can't imagine them
  requesting such info at all, let alone on an unsecured site.

  Please pass this along to anyone who you know does business with Paypal.
  Paypal security told me there are people who do this (and not just on
  Paypal) 40 hours a week! Guard your identity, and never give out info to
  someone you're not sure of, which means that you initiated the contact.

  My apologies for the OT, but this is really serious.

  Bobbo



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