Steven, although "hijacking" the email addresses of vortex posters would be extremely easy, without Bill being able to do anything about it (if you don't know how, ask me privately), since I myself didn't get the request and no other vo than Jack said he did, my guess would be that Jack himself has an eskimo account, whose details the scammer was trying to obtain. Or maybe it was sent indiscriminately to the scammer's email database, eskimo or not, in the hope that it would reach enough eskimo account holders.
This kind of scam is called phishing BTW, it's very common and most often used to obtain access to the means of payment (paypal, bank account etc) of the most gullible among the addressees. Nothing one can do about it, except ignoring it. Michel 2009/10/21 OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <[email protected]>: > It > would appear that someone hijacked the subscriber list database. > > Regards, > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Taylor J. Smith >> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:39 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Vo]:strange request >> >> Hi All, 10-21-09 >> >> Is this a scam? >> >> Jack Smith >> >> --------------- >> >> Dear eskimo.com Subscriber, >> >> We are currently carrying-out a mantainace >> process to your eskimo.com account, to >> complete this, you must reply to >> this mail immediately, and enter your >> User Name here (,,,,,,,,) And Password here >> (.......) if you are the rightful owner of >> this account. >> >> This process we help us to fight against >> spam mails.Failure to summit your password, >> will render your email address >> in-active from our database. >> >> NOTE: If your have done this before, you may >> ignore >> this mail. You will be send a password reset >> messenge in next seven (7) >> working days after undergoing this process >> for security reasons. > >
