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In Reply to: RE: Fraud Alert posted by Joseph Crowe on April 01, 2014 at 07:22:09
The provider isn't the source of most hacking, it's emails containing links. They look legit, you click on the link, and you're infected. Most of the time the return address is someone you know. Their email account was hacked and you get the bogus email with the link to a virus. The giveaway that it's phony is that you'll see a dozen or more CC addresses, as it sends the same phony email to everyone in their address book. If you see that don't click on the link.
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Make sure you change passwords on other things like paypal and ebay. Sometimes your inbox contains passwords to things like this and they could be compromised as well.
I never click embedded links in emails as a rule. In the few times that I have done it, I have emailed the sender to make sure they sent it. I would never open one where I did no know the sender.
Dave
Thanks for the various comments and advice. I take this all quite seriously. I am embarrassed to admit what browser I was using. It was AOL (A, Oh Hell). My wife and I have a kept a little $5.00 per month account there for over twenty years just because we've been too lazy to send out change of e-mail address notices to all the friends, family and businesses who use that address. We also have G-mail accounts. We have never had the slightest problem with Chrome or G-mail.
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