At 9:15 PM +0100 9/1/08, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Those emails are not from legitimate banks - they are spam. No real bank would ever send you an unsolicited email asking you to verify your details. Just hit the delete button, and DONT reply.
Worse than just spam - they are phishing, hoping to entice you into entering your information, so they can rip you off. Even if it is your very own bank where you have accounts, NEVER fill in that sort of detail when requested by an e-mail.
The other thing is "spoofing", filling in a fake "From" address - that's how you get spam ostensibly from yourself, and why you should not blame your friends for sending you spam of the male enhancement sort (can't answer for the chain-letter sort; that might really be from your friend!). The spam-generating program can take your address book and send to everyone in it, and spoof the return address as being from anyone in it as well. All is not what it seems on the surface.
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