Re: seemingly false "webmaster" reports?

From: Phil Weldon (notdiscosed_at_example.com)
Date: 11/06/05

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    'Bill Leed' wrote, in part:
    | We keep getting emails from someone/something called
    .
    .
    _____

    What 'Fritz' posted. Similar pishing messages are sent to other larger
    ISP's as well. And there are Paypal pishing messages, and Bank pishing
    messages, and ... The change in antivirus programs is concidental.

    Further using your valid email address identity when posting to a newsgroup
    makes it available to phishers, spammers, and worms who harvest email
    addresses from newsgroups. The change in antivirus programs is concidental.

    Unless you are prepared to deal with the email from pishers, spammers, virus
    spreaders, and worms that email to the address you use in postings like
    this, set up an invalid identity in your newsreader. There are reserved
    domain names that are guaranteed not to be valid, and thus possibly
    belonging to a legitimate user; two are 'invalid.com' and example.com'. If
    you don't use this precaution, the email address you use WILL receive
    malicious messages. During the rapid spread of one worm, 'Swen', it took
    less than an hour between posting to a newsgroup (with a never before used
    email address identity) and receiving an infected message generated by the
    worm (which each infected machine harvested from Usenet news servers.)

    Phil Weldon

    "Bill Leed" <bill.neva@verizon.net> wrote in message
    news:OJCzY3v4FHA.3636@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
    | We keep getting emails from someone/something called webmaster@verizon.net
    .
    | We seem to get at least one a day, but sometimes more than one or two a
    day.
    | Already today, and it is not yet 9:45am, we have received four of these.
    It
    | seems that this has been happening more since I changed from Norton
    | antivirus to McAfee antivirus. All of these emails today have carried a
    | McAfeeEmailScanReport.text.
    |
    | Here are the texts of this mornings emails from webmaster@verizon.net :
    |
    |
    | Subject: YOUR PASSWORD HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY UPDATED --
    |
    | You have successfully updated the password of your Verizon account.
    |
    | If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your
    | account, please contact Verizon customer service at: webmaster@verizon.net
    |
    | Thank you for using Verizon!
    | The Verizon Support Team
    |
    | +++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
    | +++ Verizon Antivirus - www.verizon.net

    |
    |
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