[or-roots] phishing

[Verdena Veelle]

Today I received two messages from Amazon.com that were telling me that 
somebody had stolen my account.  Yesterday I installed a thing that would 
tell me if a site was a "phish" site and it told me that was in both cases. 
Molalla stops virus messages but it didn't stop these.
Verdena Veelle

> All you AOL folks;
>
> I just received an email containing the following;
>
> Thank you for choosing America Online. Unfortunately there
> has been a problem processing your billing information for the
> month of November, 2006.
>
> Please review our billing requirements at KW: Billing. You will
> be able to update your billing information quickly and easily
> using our secure server web form. Please understand that this is
> a security measure intended to help protect update you and your
> account. Without promptly updating your billing information,
> your America Online Internet service may be discontinued.
> To update your billing at this time, please visit our secure
> server web form by clicking the hyperlink below America . . . .
>
> TRUST ME ON THIS, THIS IS A SCAM  don't even try the links or other wise
> respond to it if you have received this email.
>
> I note that there are no warnings on AOL web pages concerning this and no
> way for a non member to report it, I assume AOL in their own minds are
> secure from such things since they don't allow "thier" users to be 
> bothered
> by spam.
>
> I think that is a little short sigted of them and would appreciate it if 
> one
> of you members would point this out to them, not everybody who is on AOL 
> is
> solely accessing the internet that way.
>
> Les C
>
>
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