OT - scam warning

Sorry if this is a duplicate post, but my original did not go through.

I just recieved an email supposedly from Earthlink that said that due to a system
flush, they'd lost all of our billing info, and that we should follow the link and
update our info. If you receive this email DO NOT do this! They are scamming you.
We have reported it to Earthlink who has said they did NOT send this email out, but
it's someone who has done a very good job of replicating parts of their website.
Just a word to the wise.

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Jalynne
Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request)
see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne
or look at my layouts at
http://www.azurewave.com/photopost/s...at=500&thumb=1

Yep - there are also versions of the same thing going around for eBay,
Microsoft, PayPal and other large online companies. When in doubt, login to
the company's web page without going through the email and change your
password and such. Don't ever go through the email links. Companies that
big do not ask for information through the email.

--
Kandice Seeber
Air & Earth Designs
http://www.lampwork.net
"Jalynne" wrote in message
thlink.net...
I just recieved an email supposedly from Earthlink that said that due to a
system
flush, they'd lost all of our billing info, and that we should follow the
link and
update our info. If you receive this email DO NOT do this! They are
scamming you.
We have reported it to Earthlink who has said they did NOT send this email
out, but
it's someone who has done a very good job of replicating parts of their
website.
Just a word to the wise.


--
Jalynne
Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request)
see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne
or look at my layouts at

http://www.azurewave.com/photopost/s...at=500&thumb=1

This spam inspector (cheap, with a free trial period) has two remarkable
things on it - you can "bounce" the email back to the sender, which is the
same as receiving your mail back with the "undeliverable" sticker on it, and
second, it has a report feature that sends a complaint and the source code
back to the server it came from and also to a spam abuse reporting place.
Plus the filtering out of all sorts of crap that just goes in your deleted
file. I still can't figure out why I get the amount of spam I get, but
sometimes I'll have as many as 20 at a time that the program intercepts.

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"Kandice Seeber" wrote in message
news:9P5Na.98814$R73.11285@sccrnsc04...
Yep - there are also versions of the same thing going around for eBay,
Microsoft, PayPal and other large online companies. When in doubt, login
to
the company's web page without going through the email and change your
password and such. Don't ever go through the email links. Companies that
big do not ask for information through the email.

--
Kandice Seeber
Air & Earth Designs
http://www.lampwork.net
"Jalynne" wrote in message
thlink.net...
I just recieved an email supposedly from Earthlink that said that due to
a
system
flush, they'd lost all of our billing info, and that we should follow
the
link and
update our info. If you receive this email DO NOT do this! They are
scamming you.
We have reported it to Earthlink who has said they did NOT send this
email
out, but
it's someone who has done a very good job of replicating parts of their
website.
Just a word to the wise.


--
Jalynne
Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request)
see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne
or look at my layouts at


http://www.azurewave.com/photopost/s...at=500&thumb=1