Avoid fake emails

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John — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:52:05 GMT

I've received an email purporting to be from Microsoft about closing down accounts if you don't respond to the email to get rid of unused email addresses. They are asking for usernames and passwords hmm I smell a rat does anyone know if it's fake or not.

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Maria — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:38:17 GMT

I am getting a lot of email with a link in it from a cousin in Spokane, her

account is with AOL. I have blocked her address but it still goes into my deleted email. In fact a lot of junk mail gets into my outlook.

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Fred Petrie — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:06:25 GMT

My own opinion is - Microsoft should be tracking these crooks down and helping law enforcement agencies punish them. Countries whose law enforcement agencies don't co-operate should be cut off from the internet until they smarten up (I'm pretty certain that Microsoft could arrange for that "cut-off" to occur!!)

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Gerard Yantz — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:14:11 GMT

I've gotten many of these bogus e-mails and send then directly to my spam folder. I've also gotten them supposedly from AT&T.

What I like the best is when they mispell Microsoft or as in the AT&T ones spell security wrong.

I do hope some of these people are caught and prosecuted.

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Ray — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:18:58 GMT

I am constantly getting 25 to 50 a day in my junk file which i send to sweep but get the same ones back the very next day

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KEN Stephenson — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:05:39 GMT

Is there a central email address/site where scam emails can be sent/reported ?

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Sherrell Moran — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:29:51 GMT

Thank you. I had an email from Western Union after purchasing an incredimail product asking for email address and password had to look twice before I realised it was a fake

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Jim — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:53:51 GMT

I've been seeing these a little more often than usual as of late. Whenever I get them I try to contact the company the email is pretending to be (the last one was wellsfargo, before that was blizzard). I'll often forward to hotmail abuse just in case they can do something about it and in the case of the blizzard phishing attempt, they could as the message came from a live.com account. The fact that these messages still come through the filters means that more needs to be done.

Over the years I've seen some pretty sophisticated attempts at phishing. I almost always go to the site they want you to visit just to study what the bad guys are employing now a days. About five years ago I recall geting a phishing attempt email trying to get baking information although I cannot recall the bank they pretended to be. The website was impressive. They had a script that hid the address bar of the browser and at the very top of the webpage was an image that looked just like the address bar showing the domain of the bank so it looked as if you were actually at the proper https:// website instead of something like wwww.myinfo.usbank.baddomaininchina.com. The only thing that gave it away was that the image of the address bar differed slightly from the address bar that my particular web browser was using at the time. I was using firefox if I recall and the image was an image of IE's address bar style. I almost missed it. So, the bad guys are very sneaky in their methods and the average user in such a scenario would probably not realize they were at a spoofed site even if they considered themselves smart enough to look closely at the address bar to make sure they're actually at their bank's website.

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Sandra Kaye — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:26:31 GMT

I get dozens of spam emails a day from people using the Yahoo.com domain. I have no friends using that domain anymore yet you won't allow me to add @yahoo.com to my blocked senders list. Why not?.....

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Stephen Brown — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:12:35 GMT

Need an easy way/link to report spam emails. Many individuals can cut/paste the Internet Headers to assist in identifying who/where emails are being generated from. SB