On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Jeremy Ogembo <jeremyogembo@googlemail.com>wrote:
Morning,
I got a number of these emails from a friend of mine and when I asked her she did not have an idea where the mails were coming from. Could her login credentials have been compromised? because the emails are sent to everyone in her address book?
Regards.
I think I know how people get into these traps! Of late I have seen (and rightly deleted) some e-mails which appear as if they are from someone who knows you, inviting you to join them on a site which is made to look like another of those "Social Networking sites". Once you click the invite, you are presented with a window that literally asks you to input the password to your e-mail account (the one the invite was sent to). I believe this is what many people have fallen to, and had their identities stolen! I've seen one called Flixter, and a couple others but all I have done is to follow the rules until they ask me to key in my password - then I simply delete the mail. Funny thing is when you delete the mail, they keep reminding you that the invite/private message from so and so is about to expire.... -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain