[pchelpers] Re: Firefox toolbar add-on

Hi Arlene

Please set your email program to show what part of an answer is a quote 
and what part is new. Otherwise it's very frustrating especially for 
others trying to follow this discussion because they end up rereading 
everything many times for no reason whatsoever.

>> I don't  understand a word of this. What link did you click on and where 
>> was it?  When ordering something online, you should never click on any 
>> link to get  to that site. Enter the address by typing it when you go 
>> there the first  time and then save the address as a bookmark by clicking 
>> Bookmarks >  Bookmark This Page. Thereafter go there by clicking on the 
>> bookmark, not  by typing the address.
> 
> I clicked on a link in an e-mail from "a pharmacy"; 

Are you kidding or are you serious? I hope you're not trying to tease 
me. You are not a computer novice, and i'm sure you've heard it said 
many, many times that one should be very, very careful in clicking on a 
link in an email. This is very obviously a spam message, and by clicking 
on the link you have now confirmed that your email address is valid and 
being used. That means that its value has risen immensely and will now 
be resold to many new spammers.

Even when you get an email from what looks like a reputable company, 
don't click on any link in that email unless you're very sure that 
company has you on their mailing list. It's very easy to send an email 
that has a forged header making it look like it came from some reputable 
company. By clicking on any link in such an email you go to a fraudulent 
site, not the real site of the reputable company in the From info. Often 
these fraudulent sites look exactly like the real one; even their 
address can look exactly the same. There are Russian letters for example 
that look exactly like the Latin letter used in the English alphabet, 
and such an address is a completely different site.

> pops up a page saying  
> thank you for your order #xxxxxx; $14.95 membership.  That charge will be  
> refunded to me, but in the e-mail where I clicked on the link they were 
> saying  
> that I ordered from them before (and I knew that I didn't; my  mistake).....
> I clicked on the link so that I could see prices.  Instead "thank you  for 
> your membership".
> They have my AOL password in their e-mail, but I might have that AOL  
> password elsewhere but how did they get my debit card number?

Sounds like you surrendered personal information to a spammer now and in 
the past already too. Contact your bank immediately and get a new email 
account and address. Since AOL is total crap, this is a good time to 
switch to almost any other email provider. Even Microsoft's Hotmail is 
better than AOL, but there are hundreds of better choices like Google etc.




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