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E-mail scams Con men and scammers have kept up with the changing technology and e-mail scamming attempts are unusually high and aggravating right now. Few people can boot up their computers that they don't have numerous "official notifications" from name-brand banks, e-Bay, Pay Pal, insurance companies and more "alerting" people to problems with their accounts and urging them to click links in the e-mail or otherwise provide private information that the crooks can use to assess accounts. A new word for the scamming is "phishing." Sometimes the e-mails appear legimiate with logos and other authentic looking artwork and wording. But usually there are tell-tale signs, such as misspellings and other little things. One of the biggest right now plays off of Regions Bank, probably because of Regions' recent merger with AmSouth Bancorp. Which leads to another obvious way to tell if the e-mails are fake: If you get "alerts" from institutions that you don't do business with, they must be phony. The funniest are the ones from some minister in some central African country who has $21 million (more or less) at his disposal and he wants to split it with you if you will send him your bank account number. Apparently some folks do, because the aggravating e-mails keep coming.
The best thing to do with these obvious scams is to trash them. Don't click on links and don't respond. And if in doubt as to if they are real or not, trash them and call the company. Nine and a half times out of 10, they'll be fake.
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