Here’s a list of current Hotmail scams making their rounds:
1. Verify your Hotmail account before it is closed.
They are looking for your user name and password.
2. Your friend is asking you to wire money to a foreign country.
This one again. It is generally signed by someone you know so watch out.
3. A friend invites you to the grand opening of a new online store.
Of course, when you go and purchase something all the credit card information is now stolen.
4. Your account will expire in so many days.
They are trying for your Hotmail username and password.
5. Look who deleted you from MSN.
You are supposed to go to a (bogus) website and enter your credentials to find this information, which by the way, cannot be known (according to MSN).
6. You just won the lottery.
Egad. Doesn’t anyone learn?
7. Fake MSN featured offer.
You are supposed to buy this with your credit card. You know the rest.
What if you get a phishing email?
Click on Report phishing scam to report it. Do not reply to them or click on any links in the email. Period.
Doug
