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(Message started by: Melissa on Aug 31^st, 2006, 10:49am)

Title: It's NOT just eBay...
Post by Melissa on Aug 31^st, 2006, 10:49am

It's Amazon too!! Check out the SPOOF email I just got...

Quote:

Amazon is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of customers. To protect the security of your account, Amazon employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the Amazon system for unusual activity.

We are contacting you to inform you that our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with Amazon's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

To secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some additional information from you for the following reason:

We have been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported as lost or stolen, or that there were additional problems with your card.

This process is mandatory, and if not completed within the nearest time your account or credit card may be subject for temporary suspension.

To securely confirm your Amazon information please click on the link bellow:

https://www.amazon.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=login-run

We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.

For more information about how to protect your account please visit Amazon Security Center. We apologize for any incovenience this may cause, and we apriciate your assistance in helping us to maintain the integrity of the entire Amazon system.

Thank you for using Amazon!
The Amazon Team

What a load of crock! ::)

Title: Re: It's NOT just eBay...
Post by JeffB on Aug 31^st, 2006, 10:50am

Fockers!

Title: Re: It's NOT just eBay...
Post by Melissa on Aug 31^st, 2006, 11:05am

And ta boot, it was through the OUCH website and got to all the BoD & Committee chairs!

I forwarded it to Mike Day (Gator) to give him a heads up.

Too weird!

Title: Re: It's NOT just eBay...
Post by Gator on Aug 31^st, 2006, 3:21pm

Unfortunately, the spammers and phishers have their little bots crawling the web, looking for e-mail addresses (as well as other info). Every organization that posts contact information is going to get hit like this. In the past few months, I have deleted over 8000 spam and phishing e-mails. As soon as you plug one hole, the arseholes find another. I don't expect it to get any better

I'd like to find the perpetrators and lock them in stocks in the town square with signs identifying who they are and what they did and let people walk by and take their frustrations out on them. All televised world-wide.

Title: Re: It's NOT just eBay...
Post by sandie99 on Aug 31^st, 2006, 3:42pm

8000???! :o OMG!
That's a lot of trash...

Sanna