If you use Yahoo Mail you should be seeing a significant reduction in the number of e-mail scams purporting to be from eBay and PayPal very soon.
Yahoo will be upgrading its system beginning on Thursday with technology--dubbed "DomainKeys"--designed to block phishing spam and other fraudulent e-mail messages that look like they come from eBay and PayPal but don't. The system works by verifying the domain of the sender of the e-mail, allowing ISPs to block messages they deem illegitimate.
The upgrade is expected to be accomplished globally over the next several weeks.
Typically, the phishing scams masquerade as e-mail messages from trusted financial sources and direct a recipient to a Web site where they are asked to enter their user name and password. From there, their information is stolen.
Although most companies warn their customers that they won't send unsolicited e-mail messages asking for usernames and passwords, many people are still fooled. Blocking the scam e-mail before they hit in-boxes should cut down on the problem. Now, when is Yahoo going to do this for the major banks?
This article was originally a blog post on News.com.
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That will be real good because, I have been getting e-mails they were not real telling me all kind of stuff. For instinct one e-mail me and said they had cancer and they wanted me to be the beneficiary of the estate, and nobody going to let you be the beneficicary of their estate especially if they don't know you, and then they had the nerve to say somebody sent me my e-mail and said that I could me trusting and had the nervous to e0mail me back and say I'm trusting in you how is you trusting in me and you don't even know me, all out of the blue, stuff like that nobody need to be e-mailing people stuff like that just all kind of mess on the computer, that don't even make any sense. I through the computer mwas for knowledge and doing all kind of work and going to school and bettering your education, not for playing on the computer. So I agree with this new stuff that at&t got comming out I'm all for it then I want be getting all kind of bogash stuff on my e-mail.. One person wanted me to worked for him as a bookkeeper, and he said me three money orders and they were not real see stuff like that will get people in trouble it don't make no sense to get on the system and lie like that. Stuff like that I', against, very mad you bee thinking you really have a job and it's not true. Yhank You Ms. Johnson young?
Posted by anonymous on Monday, October 08 2007 09:19 AM