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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsInstinctively I know this is a scam but want to run this here
I am using MacMail with Comcast.
This morning I received two emails form
NEW TERNS
You are still using the old Webmail security settings.
Please use the maintenance portal below to switch and automatically enable your new Webmail settings to avoid service interruption and delays in outgoing/incoming mails.
sign in (a link which of course I ignore)
Do not ignore: To avoid account timing out within 24hrs.
Thanks for using.
Copyright © 2021 Webmail.
At the bottom there are the official logos of Comcast and Xfinity
I have no idea what a Webmail is
And, now, as I let the mouse hover over the sender there is jpfcm@version.net
And a couple of hours later form renewman6@verison.net
padfun
(1,786 posts)And if you don't know what Webmail is, then you don't have it.
Scam
question everything
(47,474 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)into believing it. Don't.
question everything
(47,474 posts)captain queeg
(10,184 posts)Dont remember now exactly but Im real careful nowadays.
question everything
(47,474 posts)I suppose it is one of those things that they just shrug.
I never click on a link. I will go to the official site.
dickthegrouch
(3,172 posts)There must be some form of dynamic feedback mechanism too if the moused over link is changing. Its pure toxicity. Run your antivirus after deleting the mail.
question everything
(47,474 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The guy said he had a video captured from my webcam of me masturbating in front of my computer while watching porn and if I didnt send him over $1000 he would send the video to my wife.
Well
since I dont have a webcam, dont watch porn, dont masturbate in front of my computer and am not married, I thought deleting the scam email was safe.
Dale in Laurel MD
(698 posts)But he must have thought I was really well off -- he wanted something like $20,000 worth of Bitcoin. He didn't get that either. But I guess enough guys lead "interesting" lives that he does collect now and then.
padfun
(1,786 posts)And they wanted me to pay in Bit Coin Only