Warning!

Your history may have been accessed by a third party.

We can’t process a payment for your outstanding balance.

perhaps your explanation is going to be deactivated, too.

Whatever the case may be, we need you to send us a whole bunch of personal info, right away. Only whether you do so can we protect you/process your payment/keep your detail active.

Sound familiar?

whether you have an e-mail history, I’m certain you have seen such messages, along

with many variations on the infamous “Nigerian letter” or notification that you’ve won a lotto in a foreign country you probably didn’t even know existed.

I mention that considering one of my co-workers at the Deseret News has been keeping me posted on similar e-mails she has received at work recently. And it made me think that that might be a good date to remind citizens that e-mail scams and “phishing” schemes are alive and well — […]

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