On Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:38:10 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > On Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:55:28 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
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> >> > On 7/30/2014 3:15 PM, Cheri wrote:
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> >> >>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:49:28 -0500, Janet Wilder
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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
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> >> >>>> About a month ago, I got an email from my main credit card, so I
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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
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> >> >>>> credit
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> >> >>>> card company who ran a list of other purchases by me that were
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> >> >>>> They closed the account and overnighted me a new card.
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> >> >>>> They said they denied the transaction because the billing address
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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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> >> >>>> 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
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> >> >>>> full every month so I don't shop for rates and I feel very safe with
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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
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> >> >>> picks up on it not being your usual spending and checks. A friend
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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
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> >> >>> to buy a stereo system, not her sort of expense.
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> >> >> I had a credit card number stolen a few years ago. I must say the
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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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> >> >> Cheri
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> >> > Those pesky foreign folks have been sending me a lot of email as
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> >> > Telecom saying that my email account has reached it's limit or that
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> >> > overhauling the mail system and I need to log in. They're really
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> >> > up the phishing.
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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
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> >> > was pretty alarming. After checking my office computers, it appears
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> >> > the delivery failure emails were the setup and the real phish came
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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
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> >> Sounded bogus so I started an online chat with them only to discover that
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> >> Got into the right chat. Waited. Had to verify stuff. Seems it was
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> >> 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
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> >> just listing the steps? Only there were no actual video there. Just a
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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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> > Frontier email sounds like a real drag. Looks like you're paying a lot for
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> I don't think Frontier email is free, seeing as how I had to pay for it.
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> And I spent about 2 hours in phone calls again tonight! Seems each time I
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> try to send a pic from my phone to my email, it screws things up. I don't
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> know how. Guy on the phone was trying to tell me that it was my AV. Nope.
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> Both times I kept getting an error message that I didn't have an account.
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> The pics would send sporadically. One one send. Then I could try 15 times
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> Guy on the phone told me to retrieve pics via Webmail which is now Yahoo. I
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> wasn't thinking when he said this. If they didn't send, they didn't send!
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> And they didn't send to Webmail either. So while waiting on hold for the
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> third time... First time they hung up on me and never called back... Tada!
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> Last pic sent.
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> I don't know what's going on there except that they seem to have a bunch of
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Well alrighty then, you got me sold - I'm staying away from Frontier!