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Another Scam warning.

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LauraNorderr Thu 02-Mar-23 12:42:35

Thanks for the warning Lovestopaint. We can all have moments of not paying attention and fall for these things. Does no harm to keep on pointing out these nasty scams.

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ExDancer Thu 02-Mar-23 12:34:08

There are more and more of these very authentic looking messages going around. One way of checking them is to look at the senders address across the top - its usually a garbled group of letters rather than a website - things like abc.%2345xyz.com - but then who thinks to check that?
Its not a good feeling that we are having to be on our guard all the time, you were alert this time, so congratulate yourself for being so on the ball.

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Lovetopaint037 Wed 22-Feb-23 10:53:08

Received an email from “Yahoo”. It told me that I would need to update my yahoo account to the latest version otherwise I would not be receiving my emails after an almost imminent date. It contained a link. At first I thought it was just an update operated by the press of a button. So pressed the link. It looked very authentic asking me to enter my email and password. I was just thinking I hoped I could find my password when at the top of my iPad flashed the word “unsafe”. My goodness what an idiot!!, I nearly fell for it. Then common sense told me that I would have been warned weeks ahead if any update was necessary. Just to be sure I went into settings and looked at my account. Nothing there and no more requests. I am sure none of you would have been taken in. I thought I was much more savvy but caught in the moment I nearly was. Just thought I ought to post it as the whole thing looked so genuine.

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