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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Martijn Grooten
<sweetwatergeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Roland Tarver wrote:
>> If that were not the case, I would have hoped I would have had
>> sufficient savvy not to do as he requested in any case. :-)
>
> A good rule of thumb if you're at least 0.01% doubtful whether it was
> genuine is to call (or email) back, using a number you found yourself
> (in your administration, on the company's website etc.), not something
> they gave you.
>
> In this case you could have called your ISP or, had you been a Windows
> user, Microsoft. They would hopefully have been able to tell you that
> it was a scam, not coming from them.
>
> ('Just ignore them' would be a good advise too, but scammers know that
> so they try to scare you by saying that not doing anything would lead
> in loss of your account/money/house/kitten/whatever.)
>
> Martijn.
>
Sound advice Martijn. Thanks to you and everyone else that has
improved my awareness! (feels a bit daft lol)
best wishes
roly :-)
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