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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 03:02 PM Apr 2017

Frontier ISP/Yahoo folks....we got a new scam today. heads up.

Longish thing, it opens by saying .."Hi"
which is not how Frontier opens when they send real email notices.

It says to change your password due to recent security issues, then will send you to a web page to get a new password, AFTER you enter your current password and security answer.

It says to contact @communications.yahoo.com for any questions
but
when I ran that thru google, it came back as an address being identified on scam reports.

It will send you to a Frontier looking web page, but if you click on any linksin the authentic looking masthead, they open to a blank page.

Best clue: Frontier would not send an email change notice, yahoo would.

2nd best clue: my email client warned it was spam.

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