Saturday, 15 December 2007

WARNING

Received a fake email from AOL today (in other words, it was not from AOL), telling me that my latest payment had ostensibly not gone through, and could I please follow that link. No, I will not follow that link, as it does not lead to anything related to AOL.

The link leads to a script on the website of a Danish company.
I've forwarded the mail to COSAction to be dealt with.

DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM

The email appears in your Inbox as coming from American-Online-No-Replay-V, and is headed by subject AOL(tm) Member - Your Account Suspension Notice.

The text of the email runs as follows, and is set on a white panel with a light-blue border, made to look like an official email from AOL.

Dear Valued Member,

We were unable to process your most recent payment. Please verify that your billing information is correct to avoid interruption of your Aol Services.

To ensure that your account is not interrupted, please update your billing information by clicking here:
 http://billing.aol.com (link disabled)

If your information on file is not updated within 48 hours, we will temporarily suspend your Aol account.

Thank you,

Michael Baldger
AOL Billing Center
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13 comments:

  1. Anonymous15 December 2007 at 15:00

    I posted this warning over an hour ago Guido as the same thing happened to me.  I reported it to AOL.  They gave me a link to forward the email to which I put on my journal.

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  2. Anonymous15 December 2007 at 15:25

    Truly ,thanks SO much for informing me and everyone. I fell for this 10 yrs ago on AOL and boy, did i make a mess of things.
    lj

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  3. Anonymous15 December 2007 at 16:17

    Thank  you Guedo...I have passed on the message to everyone I know on AOL. Sybil x

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  4. Anonymous15 December 2007 at 16:38

    I have received one or more of that or a similar email virtually every day since I have been an AOL member (going on a decade). I also get them from (not)eBay, (not)Paypal, and (not)most of the major North American banks.
    -Paul
    http://journals.aol.com/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/

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  5. Anonymous15 December 2007 at 18:25

    I  just wish there weren't sooooo many scams going on.  I'm in disbelief that there are so many deceitful people.
    http://journals.aol.com/lattedah711/lattedah/    Tracy

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  6. Anonymous15 December 2007 at 19:36

    I always hear people saying they get things like this, but I don't. Well, today I did. I reported it also. It was the exact same as yours. ~Mary

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  7. Anonymous15 December 2007 at 21:24

    Thanks for the heads up on this...take care...
    Joyce

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  8. Anonymous16 December 2007 at 01:56

    I just saw this in my new mail when I signed on.  These folks should focus their talent on doing something good & useful rather than trying to scam people.
    Lisa

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  9. Anonymous16 December 2007 at 05:03

    I got this today too.  Knew it must be fake and deleted it.
    Lori

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  10. Anonymous16 December 2007 at 08:39

    Thanks for the heads-up Guido.
    I shall take note.

    Jeanie

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  11. Anonymous16 December 2007 at 13:27

    I also received one from Bank of America saying the same thing and I don't bank with them... and it had the same ending email address I think as the AOL one...
    Linda :)

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  12. Anonymous16 December 2007 at 16:36

    Guido,
    Thank you so much for the warning. I heard about this in my group too.

    Huggers,
    Gayla

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  13. Anonymous16 December 2007 at 21:40

    I spammed it into the folder immediately it didn't have the official blue  sending thing... dang spammers!

    be well,
    Dawn
    http://journals.aol.com/princesssaurora/CarpeDiem/

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