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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 245184" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>It's called [wiki]phishing[/wiki]. I get them several times a week addressed from every bank and brokerage that you can think of. Some of them have misspellings and are obviously fake. The scary ones look authentic and have url's that appear to go to the bank's domain (bankofamerica.com etc.) They even have security warnings at the bottom...</p><p> </p><p>Ebay and paypal are the biggest targets of [wiki]phishing[/wiki] scams. They have an email address that you are supposed to forward them to but you have to be careful because forwarding email with images attached can create a record at the phishing computer's log that your email address is active and generate even more phishing email.</p><p> </p><p>To protect myself from this I just don't click on links in email anymore. I also changed the default display for html email to never display images from anyone not on my safe senders list so they can't tell if my email address is active.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 245184, member: 1"] It's called [wiki]phishing[/wiki]. I get them several times a week addressed from every bank and brokerage that you can think of. Some of them have misspellings and are obviously fake. The scary ones look authentic and have url's that appear to go to the bank's domain (bankofamerica.com etc.) They even have security warnings at the bottom... Ebay and paypal are the biggest targets of [wiki]phishing[/wiki] scams. They have an email address that you are supposed to forward them to but you have to be careful because forwarding email with images attached can create a record at the phishing computer's log that your email address is active and generate even more phishing email. To protect myself from this I just don't click on links in email anymore. I also changed the default display for html email to never display images from anyone not on my safe senders list so they can't tell if my email address is active. [/QUOTE]
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