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Good timing on this BeastOverlordH6, I just found an e-mail form the Microsoft E-mail Lottery Promotion annoucing that I have just won eight hundered thousand Euros! Dang, things are getting slimy here, I need to find some sort of filter for this cr@p.
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Alex, I had left it in because it is a benighn site as long as you don't provide the information they're requesting. I did report this to my bank and inturn their fraud department. With what I was able to glean on line, calling the police isn't really going to accomplish much of anything, especially when you are dealing with the sherif department in a small rural town. As servercrash was alluding to, theses people are pretty well insulated being in some third world country.
Good job.

The thing to keep in mind with sites like those is that if they're unscrupulous enough to do things like this, they're also probably dirty enough to perform drive-by software installations. Next thing you know, BLAM- you've got spyware, and identity theft.
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For those of you who are interested, I found an anti-Phishing extension for Firefox which is made by Google. I downloaded it, and it works great.

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/...ing/index.html
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What in the heck doesn't google make?!?! That is one crazy company for sure.

I'll have to try this though.
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