[pchelpers] Re: Fw: You've won a Microsoft X-Box (This is not spam)

(it seems my post was rejected; sorry for forgetting to reduce the quote!)

Jonathan


Are you serious? You never, ever give out *any* personal info, let alone 
of a sensitive financial kind, to unknown people; why would you even 
consider doing this over the Internet, i.e. in a completely anonymous 
and hard to trace way?

But i'm sure you would have at the very latest come to your senses if 
you'd entered the code; your browser, if correctly configured, should 
warn you about a website security certificate problem. (If you want to 
try this out, don't enter the real code -- that would verify your email 
address for the spammer -- enter "12345"!) If you have Internet 
Explorer, go to www.pcpitstop.com to change Microsoft's inexcusably and 
irresponsibly insecure default settings. Better yet, switch to Mozilla 
Firebird, the much safer and better browser that PC World calls "Best of 
2003": www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/why !

Additional reading:
Google search:  prize-giveaway scams
www.sedgwickcounty.org/District_Attorney/introconsumer.htm#contest
www.law.monash.edu.au/clide/papers/slides_may03_wilkins.pdf
www.cccsstl.org/images/CommonSense_08_4.pdf

Ekhart


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Ekhart GEORGI

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