[Mb-hair] FW: Important Reminder - or a HOAX??

[fotoblue at flash.net]

Thank you, Martin!
Hi Michael, I hope you won't get a huge phonebill. do check it!

Isn't it really a sad state of being, if one has to be suspicious of every
good-sounding 
offer sent through emails...

Nowadays  I read something and all sorts of bells and whistles go off
immediately.
 recently I had messages from several Banks, from eBay and PayPal. 
With some excuse or other of "updating information" , threatening
disruption of 
service, if you don't reply right away, and so on.
All pretending to be the geniune item, complete with logos etc, but if you
look at the 
source of the message, you realize that the link they offer leads somewhere
else 
entirely.
DON'T EVER CLICK ON ANY LINK in an email from somebody you don't know.
Martin is right, it SEEMS to lead somewhere, but that's not necessarily
where it's 
going.

 Go to the respective website and search there.

 I report all these emails - although it is a bother and takes time - 
they want the total message, Subject intact, with complete "headers" 
forwarded to them, the legit company. 
And for good measure I send everything to abuse at yahoo.com
(Yahoo is my provider). you should send it to abuse at your provider. 
They check things out and let you know...

OK, enough for now

Cheers, and Hugs
 Dagmar
http://www.dagmarfoto.com


Original Message:
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From: Martin Eayrs martin at eayrs.com
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:45:10 +0100
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: Important Reminder - or a HOAX??



Dagmar/Michael

we have had a spate of this kind of thing recently in the UK, and 
many Brits are a bit paranoid about it. Often someone leaves a phone 
number by email or voicemail - you call or call back and get either 
an answering machine or someone who speaks - or affects to speak - 
very poor English - the idea simply to keep you connected as long as 
possible at premium rate. And some premium rates can be VERY high.

Advice - never return calls unless you know the caller, and never 
click on links from unknown mails that might lead to spoof sites. 
And, Michael, I understand that the fact that you can see a URL in 
the address bar of the browser is no guarantee that you are 
necessarily on that site (go figure, it's beyond my skills).

i found a website at 
http://www.uscg.mil/Legal/la/topics/consumer_and_contract_matters/
ms_phone_scam.html 
- assuming it's kosher ;-), maybe it'll be helpful. It does discuss 
888 numbers, among other things.

Best to you all

Martin

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