Phishing ALert

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Phishing Alert

Please be advised that a fraudulent email is being sent to BellSouth? Internet Service customers in an attempt to obtain User IDs and passwords.
Otherwise known as ?phishing,? this fraudulent email is a scam by which the email user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information, such as passwords. Once the scammer has your personal or confidential information, he or she might use it illegally and/or sell it to others.

If you receive an email with the title "Account Security Measures" and "BELLSOUTH" in the "From" address field, DO NOT OPEN IT. Immediately DELETE the email from your system.

This email is NOT from BellSouth.

Following is a copy of the fraudulent email:



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Dear Bellsouth Customer,
We were unable to process your most recent payment. Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card? To ensure that your service is not interrupted, please update your billing information today as soon as possible. Updating your billing information is as easy as clicking the link below which will take you to our Account Updates web page.

Please click here to continue.

Regards,
Bellsouth.net Account Services Dept.


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Repeat, this email is not from BellSouth.

[GLBLWARMR]

Does anybody actually respond to these anymore??? I know when the internet was first starting and people were getting used to it this was a huge problem. Now these days there is not a legitimate company that will ask you through email to provide any information concerning any of your accounts.

Now there are some scams out there that are being used where you receive an email possibly from a company that you deal with. These emails say that you need to login to your account and update your information. They will provide a link to the company page but will actually be linked to a page that looks similar to the actual page. However, once you enter your account login and password you will not get logged in but your account information will be in the hands of the bad guys and they will drain your accounts quicker than you can say boo.

The key to remember is:

DO NOT SEND ANY INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO EMAILS RECEIVED. NO COMPANY WILL EVER SEND YOU SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

You know you two are ruining my great business...

[f5fstop]

Does anybody actually respond to these anymore??? I know when the internet was first starting and people were getting used to it this was a huge problem. Now these days there is not a legitimate company that will ask you through email to provide any information concerning any of your accounts.

Now there are some scams out there that are being used where you receive an email possibly from a company that you deal with. These emails say that you need to login to your account and update your information. They will provide a link to the company page but will actually be linked to a page that looks similar to the actual page. However, once you enter your account login and password you will not get logged in but your account information will be in the hands of the bad guys and they will drain your accounts quicker than you can say boo.

The key to remember is:

DO NOT SEND ANY INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO EMAILS RECEIVED. NO COMPANY WILL EVER SEND YOU SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

People are dump, so yes, people still respond to these types of emails. I read a few months ago, people still send certified checks to someplace in Europe to purchase cars in Miami. SURPRISE, there is no car. People also still believe that some dude in Africa really wants to deposit millions of dollars in their personal account so they can scoot out of the country. If they are that dumb, they deserve to lose every penny they have.

[Steve - SanJose]

Yea I've seen the lame Wells Fargo bank ones with the official logo.