Originally Posted by BluegrassGurl

Unfortunately, scam artists are always coming up with ways to get to people's information - especially email addresses. Sometimes it is from sites you get on. It could be from a friend opening up an email message and it containing instructions that will grab all their contacts in their email. Sometimes your ISP (Internet Service Provider) will sell email addresses to vendors.

I have not seen any messages like you have described since I have joined this board.

One way to protect your information is to:
1) Get a good anti-virus protection on your computer
2) Have it scheduled to run at least 2x per week
3) Keep the software updated. Computer hackers find new ways to hack systems.... so it is very important to keep your anti-virus software up-to-date.

I hope this is helpful.