I received an email, supposedly from msn, requesting personal information such as SSN, msn password, etc.

It said if I didn't provide this info "to update their database", my email service would be halted.

Any other MSN users get this email? I feel this could be an attempt to steal my identity.

How would I go about finding out if it is bogus?

I guess I'll find out it's not bogus if my email stops!

Cheers,

Bill

No service provider, MSN or anyon else, will send you an email asking you to verify your social security number or password. If you're not sure, call or email MSN yourself using contact info from the MSN site's contact information. Don't trust any contact information given in that email you received, and don't trust a website you get to via a link in that email. I promise this email is not from MSN.

Don't provide anyone your social security number unless necessary -- for an employer's tax paperwork, for example. Anyone who has your SSN might as well have open access to your wallet.

Always trust your first instinct. Delete it and don't look back.

I don't trust this email at all, believe me.

I do trust you guys and gals!

I think you are correct webwench. Seems to me I've gotten notices before stating nobody from MSN will ask for a pasword, let alone my SSN.

And germanstar, I have learned over and over, usually your first gut instinct is right. Being in the antiques biz for 28 years has taught me if I feel at first glance something has been altered, it has been.

Thank you for the verification of my distrust.

Cheers,

Bill

There is another one going around that purports to be from Pay-Pal. Just the newest offering from our Nigerian friends.

I regularly get them from someone who is spoofing citibank. The email looks very official, the site it links to is on a very plausible domain name, the only giveaway is the content (it asks for private information via email, which a bank would never, ever do) and the address ends in something other than .com. I also get an email from 'eBay' asking me to go to this site and 'confirm' my account information. Very convincing if you don't know how SSL works, but still fake.

OH S&*#---I just hit this link and I got one the other day and SENT INFO OFF!!!!

Found out from Verizon that the email I received tonight is bogus.

Man, I'm off to call Visa.

Thank you all...

Cheers?,

Bill

WEBWENCH---Thank you, thank you, thank you--a MILLION thanks.

I just got off the phone with Visa and no bogus charges have been made to my account. Luckily I just got this email from Ebay yesterday.

My God, you saved us a TON of aggravation/hassle. Boy, I know this is a great site to come to to talk MB talk, but I never dreamed one day one of you would save my butt in such a huge way.

Too bad you don't live closer to me. I'd take you out to dinner, clean your whole house, service your cars needs for life, do your laundry, clean the litter box [I know you have/love cats--BTW-I don't, so thats a big statement for me to make!], restore any furniture you might have, fix anything in your house, do your grocery shopping, kick your boyfriends a*^ when he gets outta line, wash your feet, take the cats to the vet when needed, steam clean your carpet, make your bed, go to work for you, answer the phone to make sure it isn't a telemarketer and anything else you could think of I could do. LOL

What a hassle you saved me and what luck--I just got the email yesterday. Sheesh....how lucky can a person get? I am so thankful.

BTW, Visa said they got a letter from Ebay stating this email I got is bogus so you were 100% right....

MANY Cheers,

Bill

I don't suppose you have any experience with evil stepmothers...

Just post her email address so we can all forward our Nigerian mail to her!

Not personally, but I do know a couple of mojos.

BTW, mojo=voodoo. I'm sure our deep South members already know what a mojo is. Some Yankees know the term too.

Do these bogus emails come mainly from Nigeria?

Cheers,

Bill

Damn, now I really wish you were local

Webwench, I am just glad I got it straight before a can of worms evolved.

Obviously I am not a computer pro but luckily am associated with people like you that are.

I am a very quick two-finger typist. LOL

Thanks again...

Cheers,

Bill

I got one that asked me to type in the PIN of my debit card. I'm like, who would be stupid enough to do that?

Uh, me. Well, almost.

But now I are smart.

Cheers,

Bill