[gui-talk] Alert to all AOL users

Kenlawrence124 at aol.com Kenlawrence124 at aol.com
Fri Oct 8 15:05:47 UTC 2010


 
Hi Listers sending to all related lists there is someone out there using  
AOL addresses sending out a message that says second notice your federal tax  
payment has been rejected.  I have gotten over 70 or 80 or more of the  
bounce back messages and as I type this I hear clicks saying more have come  
in.  This is the second time in recent months this crap has happened.   The 
way the program goes out is the sender adds a name to the send too field to  
get around the automatic lokcout by AOL When AOL detects electronicly 
generated  messages trying to send out many at once the AOL system trips a security 
measure  that scrambles all user names on an account and all passwords.  
This sender  is getting around that by adding a proper name first and last 
something like  John Dough _ _kenlawrence124 at aol.com_ 
(mailto:kenlawrence124 at aol.com)   and when these messages bounce I get them.  It is obvious Phishing 
so if  you are an AOL user, you might reset your password and security 
question.   Thanks, Ken.



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