nwrickert
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| reply to K Patterson
Re: The FBI wants you to know:
I am commenting on the last paragraph:
quote:
Did you respond to an email requesting you to CONFIRM, UPDATE OR PROVIDE your account information?
If you receive email with such a request, it is almost certain that it is part of a scam/fraud/phishing scheme.
The typical phish email provides a link in the email, and it is when you click on that link that a page appears for you to fill in account information. DON'T DO IT.
The fraudulent web page will look very realistic. It might even contain warnings to avoid phishing frauds. The scammers want to fool you into trusting that web page, so make it as realistic as they can.
Sometimes the phishing web page will like like a survey. "Answer these questions, and we will deposit $100 in your bank account". Don't be fooled. What they want is your bank account information.
There is a safe way to use your bank. And that is to use the url provided by your bank, and that you have probably bookmarked (saved as a "favorite" link).
Never trust email.
Example: I purchase something at amazon. I receive email confirming the purchase. I know it is legitimate, because it corresponds to what I just purchased. I save the email for future reference. I am not "trusting" the email. Rather, I am trusting my knowledge of what I purchased, and using that knowledge to validate the email.
However, suppose I receive email confirming an amazon purchase, and I have not bought anything there. Then this is very likely a scam, trying to get me to click on a fraudulent web page and provide my amazon login information. Since I don't trust the email, I don't click on any links.
Perhaps I still suspect that something was charged to me by mistake. I use my bookmarked amazon url, and login to the amazon site. Then I can check recent purchases. If what was reported in the email does not show up there, then that confirms that it was a fraud. If it does show up there (unlikely), then I would need to get onto the telephone to amazon, and report a fraudulent transaction that I never made. Notice that this does not require clicking any link in the untrusted email.
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