[ale] Bogus Email From Earthlink Billing

[Dow Hurst]

The replies are getting so funny on the list that I am reading them to 
my wife. ;-)

If you send something that is this funny, Jeff, you ought to put a 
smiley face to show your humor!  Otherwise, we might think you weren't 
laughing when your wrote it! :-)

I am still laughing....


My question about the email is if you disable images, Javascript, and 
html in email then would the link even work?  Anyone using a client that 
won't do that kind of config for email will just suffer.  I have turned 
on the ultimate spam stuff that Earthlink offers and configured my 
online address book at Earthlink with the addresses and domains I get 
email from regularly.  Anything else is held until I look at it and 
decide if it is spam or not.  It is working great and when I POP the 
mail to home, I only get what I really want.  Earthlink will always 
allow their billing email thru, but the spam forms won't get thru.
Dow


Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>And this is noteworthy why?
>
>My cynicism is doe to the fact that this form of scam is becoming too
>commmonplace to make mention of.  Warnings can't possibly help anymore;
>let Darwinism sort out the victims.
>
>- Jeff
>
>On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 09:02, Robert Heaven wrote:
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>>Warning!!! for those on earthlink... I just got an email that looks
>>totally legit, supposedly from earthlink, saying they couldn't bill my
>>credit card and I need to click on a link to "re-enter" my credit card
>>info... When I looked at the email source, I could see that the link
>>was actually to a server called "curvet.co.kr". (is that Korea?) I
>>don't think earthlink has moved their billing department to Korea.
>>(India maybe but definitely not Korea) 
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