AOL scam

[david small]

There is a nasty scam around on aol at the moment. it pretends to be from aol asking for you to resupply your credit card details or your account will be closed.
always check the address from the sender. rightr click on the unopened email see senders info.
why aol has not blocked this I do not know.

[factor-fiction]

Thanks for the warning.

Hopefully AB members are all aware of this type of scam asking for banking details/reverify your account details/claim your tax refund/help a man in Nigeria get your million pound inheritance, and never respond to anything that doesn't address them personally.

I don't see how aol could possibly block them.

[beso]

Check the address from sender? If you think that is going to protect you from scams, you are very much mistaken.

The sender address is easily spoofed. If you dig through the complete headers you might be able to gather something from the ip addresses.

You should be more interested in where the link provided in the message is sending you. Just because displays an address for the link there is no guarantee that this is the actual link address. The actual address of the link can be found but the way to read it depends on your mailer. Reading the raw text of the email shows the truth.

Moreover you would want to be very careful reading that address and know what you are doing because it is also quite easy to make an address look legitimate to most people and have it take you somewhere completely different.

If you doubt that you could be fooled becayse you can read complex addresses you had better also know what a Cyrillic address spoof means.

However any message that askes you re-register your credit card details is almost 100 percent guaranteed to be a phishing message.

[VHG]

>>>>always check the address from the sender.

As others have said, a FAR beter solution is to NEVER believe ANY email that asks you to re-register, or enter your userid and password again to "verify them", or asks for any credit card or other financial details.

If you never trust any of these type of emails you are unlikely to get scammed.

[vivandorron]

Report it to AOL.

http://help.aol.com/h...=kc&externalId=222027

Ron.