Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Computer "Tip of the Day" 05-26

- - Check the Size of Your Webmail Inbox Phishing Scam This email purports to be an automatic webmail admin message that warns account holders that their webmail account inboxes are nearing the maximum allowed size and need to be reset in order to allow the continued delivery of email. The message claims that account holders need to reply to the message with their webmail username and password so that the account's email database can be reset. Surprise: the message is not from any webmail system's administrator. Instead, it is a phishing scam designed to steal webmail account details. Those who reply as instructed will be handing over the email account username and password to Internet scammers.
More information: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/check-inbox-size-scam.shtml

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