[IP] more on SCAM!!!!! Your account information has been stolen
From: Richard Beatty <Richard.G.Beatty@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Nope. While AOL is the internet content provider that everybody loves to
hate, they have worked out some pretty good safeguards against many
cyber-threats. For example, any "official AOL mail" in one's inbox is
flagged with a special icon, and thus far I've not heard or seen anyone
hack this protocol. So the bogus message below would not have the special
blue AOL icon, and a user of semi-average intelligence would realize that
it's a bogus message even if the return address was faked to be
SomeoneOfficial@xxxxxxxx
Also, they seem to have a pretty clever SPAM filter. I have my JPL email
set up (via a Linux command on the local mail server) to autoforward all my
JPL mail to one of my AOL accounts, so I can get to my JPL mail even if I'm
in a place where I can't crack the JPL firewall. Sometimes I get SPAM
addressed to my jpl.nasa.gov address, but 90% of the time the AOL filter
cleans this out and puts it in a SPAM folder that I can review and flush
periodically. So far they've never filtered a "real" message.
To answer Dave's questions, AOL doesn't tolerate this stuff, but seems to
try hard to track down and prosecute spammers and especially
misrepresenters. As for DOJ...well, I can only speculate that their
inactivity (which I haven't followed) is inspired by Herr Ashcroft's firm
commitment to civil liberties and freedom of speech. Or maybe that he
supports the corporations that profit from SPAM. Make up your own mind.....
rgg
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