Saturday, November 14, 2009

Don't Fall for Yahoo Alert - Okie Dope Spam Mail, It Will Cost YOU Your Password!

Recently, as of Friday the 13th, November, 2009 - I received
another
Yahoo Alert Email supposedly from Yahoo twice -
back to back. Well, to the not so Internet and Email Savvy
Surfer, this SPAM mail will trick the
'hell' out of you.
(Please excuse me Church People, but, I have to say it in
this form to get my point clearly across the board.)

Why would it trick someone? Well, if you scroll down this
web page and take a look at this particular email sent to
us at one of our email address, it has what appears to be
a legitimate
" @ yahoo.com " in the rear of it.

Note: Anyone can create this sort of email address or
fake it - whoever knows how.

But, in fact - SPAM Mail always tells on itself and I'm going
to identify () ways how below:

1) A Spam Email will ask you to respond to a different email
sent from the
"Sender".

2) Spam Email will always ask you for personal information.

3) Spam Email will have a
FALSE URL or LINK of the
person or company its forged or fraudulent representing.

CHECK ALL URLs or LINKS.
Don't believe me? Well,
place your
Cursor on the link in Exhibit NOV1309
below
this article " https://billing.yahoo.com " and look in the
bottom left portion of your Internet Browser (This applies
to Internet Explorer or Firefox) and you will see this

https://billing....yahoo.com/
. The dots clearly
identify a falsehood, so DON'T BE FOOLED.

4) A Spam Email may not be directly address to you.
Sometimes it appears to be, but not all of the time.

5) These emails will always request urgent response,
create fear in the Net User's mind, talk about giving you
millions of dollars having never even seen you or
possibly tell you a sad story.

6) The SPAM Email always appears to have bad sentence
structure. LOL ( I know I can't talk about other people's
sentence structure, but its true.)

7) The SPAM Email will have missed spelled words in a
Business Letter Format. LOL ( Again, I know BIE can't
say anything, but at least if we catch it and correct ourselves.)

Note: The sad story part is not difficult to discern from
a more legitimate one - if you
LOOK
for the tell tell signs, so, don't disregard all sad stories.


ALWAYS
confirm them.

Alrighty, More TRICKERY!

This particular email is good, but not the best. Let, me
tell you how its good in fooling you.

The
SPAM ATTACKER, preys on the fact that you
may not utilize common sense, when he or she creates

FEAR
in your mind while telling you the following below:

QUOTED from the SPAMMER: " Due to the
congestion in all Yahoo users and removal of all
unused Yahoo Accounts,Yahoo would be shutting
down all unused Accounts,You will have to confirm
your E-mail by filling out your login info below after
clicking the reply botton or your Account will be
suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.
"

Say what!!

A) If Yahoo is a FREE Email Account Company
where Millions of People go daily to check
their emails, why would it have Congestion in this form,
IF it wanted to be in business.

B) If Yahoo did have congestion, why would it not
Post
the Message Directly On the
Web Page most of the time
in a
Yellow Background? (Which it does)

C) Why would Yahoo need to ask you personal questions?
Fore, it already knows who you are from the
information you provided.

Oh, one other thing, if our subscription was canceled on
September 29, 2009 as described below in
Exhibit NOV1309 ,
how in the heck are we receiving this email, now? LOL

Its important to know the facts about SPAM and creating
personal SPAM Filters to prevent yourself from becoming a Victim.

Oh, before I go; what should you do if you have fallen prey to
this or other similar SPAM Mail tricks?

1) Don't Panic.

2) Always get a second, third or fourth opinion; do the research.

3) If they get you, change your email password immediately.

Do not make a password that you can remember.

Always write the password down at least twice

(Write it down on at least two different documents
that you secure and can easily acquire)
and put it in a
safe secured place. Use words that are capitalized, lower case
letters and at least (1) or more special characters.
( Example: & ^ * ? % ) Change your password frequently
( Yearly, 6 months, Quarters, Monthly, Weekly or Daily).

4) If you have made financial transactions utilizing this email,
stop! Create a new email address, follow the procedures above
about creating a password and use this particular email address
ONLY for financial transactions. Please make sure you change
the
OLD email address in each and every financial institution
web site profile of yours to the
NEW email address you created.
ONLY
utilized this email address for
financial transactions and
REMEMBER IT.

5) Contact your employer or email service provider
and tell them your situation.

6) Contact the proper authorities.
Google (Look in a search engine like Google),
" CERT " for advice.


So, what do you think?

Sign,

C. Henry Adams
President / CEO
Broadcasting Interest Enterprise, Inc.
(404) 348-8319
chatlga2000@yahoo.com
http://biemediagroup.com

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NOTE: The following spam email below
was sent to our attention.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Exhibit NOV1309

--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Yahoo Customer Service <
yahoo.verification@yahoo.com>
wrote:

From: Yahoo Customer Service <yahoo.verification@yahoo.com>
Subject: YAHOO ALERT
To: yahoo.customerservice@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 2:56 AM

Dear Valued Member,
Due to the congestion in all Yahoo users and removal of all
unused Yahoo Accounts,Yahoo would be shutting down
all unused Accounts,
You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your login
info below after clicking the reply botton or your Account
will be suspended within24 hours for security reasons.
YAHOO ACCOUNT VERIFICATION ALERT !!! (KMM69467VL055834KM)
Due to the congestion in all Yahoo Accounts, Yahoo
would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will
have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login
Information below after clicking the reply button, or your
account will be suspended within
24 hours for security reasons.
Yahoo! ID Card

Name:.................. ....... .............................. ....


Yahoo! ID:....................... .... ........................


Yahoo! Mail Address:......... ........ ............ .


Password:............... ........................ ...... .......


Member Information

Gender:................. .............................. .........


Birthdate:.......... ............................


Occupation:................... .............................. ..

Country:...................... ........ .............................. .....




If you are a Yahoo! Account Premium subscriber, your current subscription
will be canceled on september 29 2009 if you refuse to update your account.
We will refund the unused portion of your Premium subscription, if any.
The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method we have on file for you.
So please make sure that your billing information is correct and up-to-date.
For more information, please visit https://billing.yahoo.com.
After following the instruction on this sheet your account will not be interrupted
and will continue as normal
We appreciate your being a Yahoo! Account user.
Sincerely, Yahoo! Customer Support

Please reply to this message. This is a service related to your use of Yahoo! Mail.
To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of
Web beacons in HTML-based email, visit Yahoo home page. Yahoo! is located
at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
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