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ric wrote:
>
> John Rampling wrote:
>
> > Received the following email this morning, redirected to me from my website
> > email forwarding facility:
> >
> > <quote>
> >
> > Thank you for your order!
> > ***PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL, THIS IS AN AUTOMATED EMAIL AND
> > NO REPLY WILL BE READ***
> >
> > INFINITY-MICRO SALES ORDER ORDER ID: IM 0BSK3
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > Qty. Price. Amount. Description
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > 1 $1,489.00 $1,489.00 M505X, GATEWAY M505X , Pent.4
> > 1.4Ghz, 40GB HD, 512MB, 24x DVD/CDRW Combo Dr
> > 1 $379.00 $379.00 IM-MEMNO1GB, 1GB NOTEBOOKS MEMORY
> >
> > Payment Method: ----- Credit card
> > Order Date ----- 8/9/04 2:05 AM
> > Ship Via: ----- 2 Day
> >
> > Subtotal: ----- $1,868.00
> > Discounts: ----- -$56.04
> > Shipping: ----- $45.00
> > Tax: ----- $0.00
> >
> > TOTAL: ----- $1,856.96
> >
> > Sales Department
> > At eurojobsear.net
> >
> > <END of quote>
>
> 1. Call your CC company and report the incident. If you don't have online
> access to monitor your CC charges, get it.
> 2. Download, install, and run an anti spyware program (Spybot 1.3 or
> Ad-aware.)
> 3. DO NOT click on any links in the email nor contact that company in any
> way.

In fact, it is a good policy to *NEVER* click on *any* links in *ANY*
e-mail, ever, no matter how legitimate it looks or may be.
Make it a personal policy!
If one really needs to navigate to a given site, do a manual entry in
the navigation bar.
That will materially decrease possible problems.

Also, if the e-mail looks "suspect" then *immediately* toss it and do
not look back (!!).
Suspect = 1) "your order from..." when you know you did not order what
is mentioned, or from that company, 2) mispelled words, the more the
worse, 3) use of nonstandard characters "l!ke m0Re", 4) use/excessive
use of HTML, 5) HTML coding of characters "&12321" (or something like
that - do not remember, as i toss it so fast), 6) forged headers, 7)
porn crap, stock tips, 9) MS "update" or "security" crap, 10) etc.