A while back I told my readers about another Hotmail Phishing Scam. A Phishing Scam is any attempt to get identify or password information from you, to be used to your detriment. With Hotmail or certain other popular email accounts you may receive email from a disguised 3rd party, purporting to be Hotmail and telling you that your account will be shut down or partially shut down if you do not send certain information, including your name and password. Once that have your name and password you can be shut out of your own account while they mine it for identity data, or they can send email in your name for nefarious purposes. The Phisher has appropriated Hotmail logos, etc through cut and paste. (After all, after a little identity theft, fraud, larceny, what is copywrite infringement.) If you place your curser in the correct spot under the Hotmail or Windows Live address title you will find that the real originator of the email pops u...
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