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TheLastSuperman · #3 09-10-2010, 05:05 PM

If you don't recognize the sender or the message title normally does not apply to you then don't open the email, send to Trash or mark & move to junk folder.

Also fyi since some simply do not know... there are Fake PayPal emails that are sent out every so often as well. At a former employer we once received one from "Wachovia" which had legitimate page links etc but the one page to request your new username and password was a sham.

The rest of you... no matter how enticing the email title sounds to you don't open it

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Google: Social Engineering and there's your answer to why it's done on a daily basis, currently it's a multi-million a year "industry" per say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...%28security%29

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