"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:55:28 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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>> > On 7/30/2014 3:15 PM, Cheri wrote:
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>> >> > wrote in message
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>> >>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:49:28 -0500, Janet Wilder
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>> >>> wrote:
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>> >>>>
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>> >>>> Even if I get a legit looking email from my bank or a credit card, I
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>> >>>> will not click the link. I'll go directly to the web site and log
>> >>>> in
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>> >>>> for the message.
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>> >>>>
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>> >>>> About a month ago, I got an email from my main credit card, so I
>> >>>> went
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>> >>>> to
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>> >>>> the site and logged in to find that they had denied a purchase in
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>> >>>> California for over $300. I picked up the phone and called the
>> >>>> credit
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>> >>>> card company who ran a list of other purchases by me that were
>> >>>> legit.
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>> >>>> They closed the account and overnighted me a new card.
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>> >>>>
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>> >>>> They said they denied the transaction because the billing address
>> >>>> did
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>> >>>> not match.
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>> >>>>
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>> >>>> I had used the card at Target, supposedly the day before they got
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>> >>>> hacked, so I'm guessing it was from the Target scheme.
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>> >>>>
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>> >>>> I use a Chase credit card and anytime there is an online or phone
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>> >>>> transaction or one over $200, I get an instant email. I pay my bill
>> >>>> in
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>> >>>> full every month so I don't shop for rates and I feel very safe with
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>> >>>> Chase.
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>> >>>
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>> >>> I hope I don't tempt fate by saying I have never had any problems and
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>> >>> hold several credit cards, I am just sensible with them. If
>> >>> something
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>> >>> happens these days, like it did with you, the system pretty quickly
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>> >>> picks up on it not being your usual spending and checks. A friend
>> >>> did
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>> >>> not even know her card had been stolen, until the bank called her,
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>> >>> only about ten minutes after it had been stolen. The idiot was
>> >>> trying
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>> >>> to buy a stereo system, not her sort of expense.
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>> >>
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>> >> I had a credit card number stolen a few years ago. I must say the
>> >> people
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>> >> that stole the number were going by train through Switzerland, so they
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>> >> were on an adventure at least. Thieves.
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>> >>
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>> >> Cheri
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>> > Those pesky foreign folks have been sending me a lot of email as
>> > Hawaiian
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>> > Telecom saying that my email account has reached it's limit or that
>> > it's
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>> > overhauling the mail system and I need to log in. They're really
>> > ramping
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>> > up the phishing.
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>> >
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>> > The one I got yesterday was really sweet. It's a series of 5 delivery
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>> > failure emails followed by a notice saying that the account is in
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>> > violation of the terms of service and my computer was spamming. That
>> > one
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>> > was pretty alarming. After checking my office computers, it appears
>> > that
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>> > the delivery failure emails were the setup and the real phish came
>> > later.
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>> > They almost got me that time!
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>> I wasted a big chunk of time today. Got an email from Frontier telling
>> me
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>> that I needed to upgrade my mail or third parties could read my messages.
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>> Sounded bogus so I started an online chat with them only to discover that
>> I
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>> has started the wrong online chat.
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>> Got into the right chat. Waited. Had to verify stuff. Seems it was
>> legit.
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>> K. Went back to the email and clicked on the link to tell me what to do.
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>> Seems it was a video. I was like... Why would they do a video instead
>> of
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>> just listing the steps? Only there were no actual video there. Just a
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>> black screen.
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>> So started another chat. Repeat above. Guy types out all of the
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>> instructions and... All of my settings were correct!
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>> But to close one screen it forced me to enter a bunch of survey stuff for
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>> them about how my customer service experience went? Then when I got home
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>> later, I got two emails asking me to do more surveys. Uh no. Buy a clue
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>> people! Don't just assume that everyone has no clue how to configure
>> their
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>> email. Sheesh.
>
> Frontier email sounds like a real drag. Looks like you're paying a lot for
> this free service.

I don't think Frontier email is free, seeing as how I had to pay for it.
And I spent about 2 hours in phone calls again tonight! Seems each time I
try to send a pic from my phone to my email, it screws things up. I don't
know how. Guy on the phone was trying to tell me that it was my AV. Nope.
Both times I kept getting an error message that I didn't have an account.
The pics would send sporadically. One one send. Then I could try 15 times
and it wouldn't.

Guy on the phone told me to retrieve pics via Webmail which is now Yahoo. I
wasn't thinking when he said this. If they didn't send, they didn't send!
And they didn't send to Webmail either. So while waiting on hold for the
third time... First time they hung up on me and never called back... Tada!
Last pic sent.

I don't know what's going on there except that they seem to have a bunch of
idiots.