WARNING: DON'T DO THIS
#1
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: currently central new jersey
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when i had that problem with hotmail hackers, this is the enail that i got first that i think triggered it. it came into my hotmail inbox and messed everything up. that's why i don't have hotmail anymore.
now i got it on my verizon account. so be very careful. this is a scam and the info is used to get into your account. they never did anything with my info except make make me nuts, but i think they could have.
my advice is do not give this information out to anyone.
From: ©Webmail Administrator Internet Technical Support <[email protected]>
Subject: Dear Webmail Email User
To:
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 2:33 PM
Attention E-mail Account Holder,
Dear Webmail Email User. All mailhub systems will undergo regularly
scheduled maintenance, and access to your mailbox via our mail portal will
be unavailable for some time during this maintenance period.
We shall be carrying out service maintenance/upgrade on our database and
e-mail account center for better online services. We are also deleting all
unused e-mail accounts to create more space for new accounts.In order to
ensure you do not experience service interruptions or possible deactivation
of your e-mail account, Please you must reply to this mail immediately
confirming your e-mail account details below for confirmation and
identification.
_____________________________________
1. First Name & Last:
2. Full Login Email:
3. Username:
4 Password:
5. Current Password:
_____________________________________
Failure to do this may automatically render your e-mail account
deactivated from our e-mail database/mail server. To enable us upgrade
your e-mail account, please do reply to this mail.
Webmaster Information
Technical Services
Account Management.
now i got it on my verizon account. so be very careful. this is a scam and the info is used to get into your account. they never did anything with my info except make make me nuts, but i think they could have.
my advice is do not give this information out to anyone.
From: ©Webmail Administrator Internet Technical Support <[email protected]>
Subject: Dear Webmail Email User
To:
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 2:33 PM
Attention E-mail Account Holder,
Dear Webmail Email User. All mailhub systems will undergo regularly
scheduled maintenance, and access to your mailbox via our mail portal will
be unavailable for some time during this maintenance period.
We shall be carrying out service maintenance/upgrade on our database and
e-mail account center for better online services. We are also deleting all
unused e-mail accounts to create more space for new accounts.In order to
ensure you do not experience service interruptions or possible deactivation
of your e-mail account, Please you must reply to this mail immediately
confirming your e-mail account details below for confirmation and
identification.
_____________________________________
1. First Name & Last:
2. Full Login Email:
3. Username:
4 Password:
5. Current Password:
_____________________________________
Failure to do this may automatically render your e-mail account
deactivated from our e-mail database/mail server. To enable us upgrade
your e-mail account, please do reply to this mail.
Webmaster Information
Technical Services
Account Management.
#6
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: New York State, but I will always be Canadian!
Posts: 933
Never never never answer an email requesting your password or account info. ESPECIALLY if it is from a "bank". I regularly get emails from random banks telling me they need my bank account information. Occasionally the email is named from a bank I use. Never will banks or email account providers or credit card companys ask for this information! If you recieve an email like this, contact the fraud department of the email account provider (I.e. Hotmail) or the bank whose name is being used and report the email! I have done that on several occasions. Never never never give this information to phone solicitors either!
#7
There's a reason you have a password....it's so idiots like that can't get into your accounts. Do NOT give out passwords or personal info. If, in fact, they are cleaning out the e-mail logon IDs -- then they can do a data file that will search them out by "last accessed date". Anything that hasn't had an access since xx/xx/2009 for example. What you have is a scam!!!
#9
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: currently central new jersey
Posts: 8,623
Originally Posted by Lilaciris
I have a Gmail account and never had a single problem
now, for the first time i got this email in my verizon! yahoo account. 2x in one day. so it's going around again. so just be on the lookout. i was so stupid.
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