March 26, 2010
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Danger Danger Will Robinson!
Two fun scams
I got two interesting emails the day before yesterday.
The first was from a friend of mine who wrote that she'd been robbed in a hotel in London and would I send her $2000 dollars via Western Union.
The second was from Apple, confirming an order from the store. The link led to a site owned by someone in Madras, India, which downloaded an .exe file - presumably a virus of some sort.
I knew the first could not be from Maggie, since she has never typed an email that didn't contain at least one typing/spelling mistake in each word.
The second I checked by going directly to my apple account rather than clicking on the link provided in the email. / The hint that something was up was: 1) I hadn't ordered anything lately and 2) Apple-store order numbers start with letters.
Just a word of warning.
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Remind me never to stay in a London hotel.
I only send money to people in Nigeria who need my help. 
Whenever I get an e-mail I didn't expect and there's a link in it, I just pass my mouse over it and look in the bottom window frame to find out what its real destination is. The inquest usually stops right there. A [.ru] for example is NOT in my "trusted" list.
(I don't know Safari, but I suppose there's the equivalent to find out where a link points to, without clicking on it).
I got an email today stating that my account ending in XXXX(they had the correct numbers)needs overdraft attention.......... Of course they wanted me to sign in with the pertinent info.
I printed it and will take it to the bank first thing tomorrow. I get really tired of the spam and fraud BS.
I went through more than a hundred entries in my spam folder - it was unbelievable how many scams were listed..
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