[X4U] Spam mail

[T.L. Miller]

On 11/30/06, at 2:17 PM, Linda xpressobean at mac.com said:

>There are hundreds of these out there, from eBay, Sears, PayPal, Amazon,
>etc. Always for a $2499 Sony VAIO, it seems. They are never real, always
>spam; if you want to check, log onto your account's website by navigating to
>the real URL (real eBay, real PayPal, etc.) NOT by clicking in the link
>provided in the email. NEVER click a link in an email, even if you suspect
>that it might be real. NEVER click a link in the email. Never. :)

I have thought that the primary purpose of this type of message was to
get us to go to a phony Amazon, eBay or PayPal web page where they would
hope we sign in with our password. Presumably, this could give them
access to our account. 



Tom Miller
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