Phishey, Phooey, and a Sure Fire Scam

Folks,

I've no reason to believe that once you have an email account for several years with an email provider, that provider will reach out to you for account verification. These scams are getting a too scary.

The latest scam I received was supposedly from Yahoo Customer Service.

The sender asked for my Yahoo ID, password, name and birth date. He/she even asked that I type a code word and warned me that if I did not verify my information, my account would be permanently lost. It all looked very convincing. I tried to copy and past it onto this blog, but for some reason, it wouldn't take. It was in the Yahoo fonts, and looked VERY convincing. Only, I could not believe that Yahoo would want to verify this information.

Because of my skepticism, I decided to take a closer look at the email and found that although the sender said Yahoo customer service, the email address was alize13@abcglobal.net. This clearly raised a red flag. That is, why would Yahoo customer service not have a yahoo email? Second, upon closer examination, I also found some grammatical errors. For example, the email read: This helps Yahoo prevent automated Verification. While easily overlooked, there is no reason for the V in verification to be capitalized.

Keep your eyes open.
There's a lot of phishing going on.
Whatever you do, don't bite!