Hello Colleagues,
Please be aware that the Nigerian spammers have developed a new approach, which is hurting may people these days. The only way to defeat this approach is simply for all of us to be informed about their tricks.
It begins with someone sending you an e-mail that claims to have been sent by your email service administrator, to inform you that they are migrating all client e-mails to another server.
The email then requests you to send your user-name and password for that purpose. Once you have sent the information, the impostor quickly changes your password, so you can no longer access your account, and then sends out emails such as the one hereunder to everyone in your address book.
There may be subsequent financial implications for you if any kind-hearted friend actually carries out the request to assist you.
And in the meantime, you lose your archive, addressbook, and incoming correspondence. So be careful and NEVER send your user-name/password to anyone by email.
If you must share your details, then use either encryption or SMS.
And bear in mind that email system administrators do not require your password in order to carry out their functions.
Finally, if you should ever receive such an email, please remember not to panic and rush off to send those dollars.
Regards,
Stakeholder
DS.
OK you send no username or password to anybody but they still got me for they hacked into a mail order store account and stole a large number of card details.So out of the blue a company phones me and said thank you for your order it is being processed but they wanted to comfirm that I wanted six designer shirts of the same colour and size. I said I did not order anything from them they advised me to phone my bank and block the card. When I phoned the bank they said no problem but what about the ninety six pounds you spent this morning. oh dear
ReplyDeleteIf they wanna your email and password, plus you username they can have it without even asking you, they know how to do it. We have just to pray God such things should happen.
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