- Jan 27, 2004
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I got an email in my Yahoo Email Spam folder from losep Stevens. His first name is not capitalized. The Subject line reads ... " RE: NNNN-XXXX I will directly come to the point. I know that XXXX is your p"
The viewable space of the subject line ends there. NNNN I used in place of my userid. XXXX represents my password.
What's going on? Should I open this to read it? Should I go to the library to open/read it there where they probably have better security to stop any malware ... read it and delete it at the library?
I Googled but found nothing on losep Stevens.
There are lots of stories of Gmail PW scams in spam folders.
None are about Yahoo email. None have the enduser's userid and PW.
I use MS Essentials AV. I only use my WiFi network at home and one, nice neighborhood Starbuck's WiFi network.
Now that I think of it. I don't use that userid for any forum. I only use it for my Yahoo email address. The PW is my Yahoo email PW. I use that email address for various, legitimate, online stores and ebay and i think only two forums including anandtech. The stores are BestBuy, JCPenny, Macy's, Newegg, Kohls and Walmart. There's one other forum I haven't been on in ages. I tried to get on months ago but it wouldn't accept any PW I tried. Dell's enduser forum banned my email address for no reason. The only post I made was about which RAM to use for a specific model laptop and how Dell's own website offered RAM for it that their techs said wouldn't work with it.
The viewable space of the subject line ends there. NNNN I used in place of my userid. XXXX represents my password.
What's going on? Should I open this to read it? Should I go to the library to open/read it there where they probably have better security to stop any malware ... read it and delete it at the library?
I Googled but found nothing on losep Stevens.
There are lots of stories of Gmail PW scams in spam folders.
None are about Yahoo email. None have the enduser's userid and PW.
I use MS Essentials AV. I only use my WiFi network at home and one, nice neighborhood Starbuck's WiFi network.
Now that I think of it. I don't use that userid for any forum. I only use it for my Yahoo email address. The PW is my Yahoo email PW. I use that email address for various, legitimate, online stores and ebay and i think only two forums including anandtech. The stores are BestBuy, JCPenny, Macy's, Newegg, Kohls and Walmart. There's one other forum I haven't been on in ages. I tried to get on months ago but it wouldn't accept any PW I tried. Dell's enduser forum banned my email address for no reason. The only post I made was about which RAM to use for a specific model laptop and how Dell's own website offered RAM for it that their techs said wouldn't work with it.
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