OT<Be Careful

[Patti Feinberg]

For our home ISP, we have Windstream (it's I suppose comparable to Comcast or Verizon), DSL.

It's the 'main' e-mail when asked by schools, work, etc.

For my Amazon & Google stuff, I have a gmail account (I also have a separate gmail via my school).

I just went to our Windstream e-mail; there were 150!! e-mails.

I looked at them (not one by one, but by what I new was sales pitches, etc).

There were more than 10 which had various 'message lines' stating shipping news, etc.

I have been getting quite a few DVDs via Amazon, plus Christmas is coming, so have been doing shopping. Don't know why I'd be getting emails through Windstream, but hey, wanted to make sure.
Again, they all had different Message Lines (most 'seemed' like they were from USPS), but when I opened, they were all various DHL shipping things; lines which read, "We tried to deliver your package...." (I have two unemployed daughters plus my son just went back to school on Friday...DON'T TELL ME NO ONE WAS HERE TO RECEIVE A PACKAGE!!)

Again...I really feel uneasy with it 'seeming' like it's USPS but really DHL.

Just wanted everyone to make sure to NOT reply;;;;there was no real routing type# (I wouldn't have bothered anyway; most Amazon comes via USPS).

Be careful!!

Patti

[Gerard]

I get some of those phoney e-mails every once in a while.  However, most are from the "UPS" (uh-huh; right) rather than the USPS.  They're fake "phishing" e-mails.  Since, Patti, you have been overwhelmed by them, report them to your e-mail provider.  It can track their IPS numbers and report them to a national clearinghouse (its name escapes me) that people and businesses can subscribe to in order to block receiving them. 

Unfortunately, these phishers quite often hack e-mail accounts without the owner knowing, using that e-mail address to send this stuff out.  The innocent e-mail holder can suddenly find his/her account shut down.  This is why everyone should change their passwords for their e-mail accounts once a month.  It's a pain, I know, but better that than suddenly losing one's account because it's been hacked and is sending out tons of spam and phishes.  I've had my accounts hacked in the past (I've even received e-mails from myself hawking everything from viagra to aluminum siding and everything in-between), but constantly changing the passwords works like a charm.

Gerard

[Patti Feinberg]

I've had my accounts hacked in the past (I've even received e-mails from myself hawking everything from viagra to aluminum siding and everything in-between)

That is so funny. Thanks for the head up dahling!!

Patti