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Popular music site is targeted by phony site where thieves ask for credit card, social security, and mother's maiden name information.

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by dadsgravy May 21, 2008 12:51 PM PDT
With all the people switching from windows to mac, this might actually work!
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by Thomas, David May 21, 2008 5:01 PM PDT
It is good practice to never use a link from an email for any critical information. I've been doing this for years now, and while I understand inexperienced users to fall for these social engineering traps, it should be explained over, and over again. This would literally dry up this type of phishing. Unfortunately, people still fall for it, but I still think it would be great if this was something always told to someone learning to user their email.
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by Zero187 May 27, 2008 9:22 AM PDT
It really is just common sense, anyone that falls for a phishing scam really doesn't value their money that much if they are so willing to give away their info without looking into it. Darwinism for the net :)
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by bernie.mcginn May 30, 2008 1:51 PM PDT
great article... thanks!
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by karen-mobile August 27, 2009 3:03 PM PDT
Super insightful article, makes you think doesn't it.
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