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More on “news alerts”

Posted on August 14, 2008 by John Hoyle

After publishing the previous article entitled “Watch out for ‘news alerts,’ I did some updated checking to see if either CNN.com or MSNBC.com have acknowledged the problem and have tried to do anything about it. I’m pleased to say that … Continue reading →

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Watch out for “news alerts”

Posted on August 14, 2008 by John Hoyle

Over the past few weeks many of my email accounts, especially Yahoo!Mail and Hotmail.com, have been inundated with messages purporting to be from CNN.com and MSNBC.com. They are “phishing” emails, trying to harvest new active email accounts by either (1)registering … Continue reading →

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