Dec. 8-WARNING: We have been getting numerous e-mail messages from what looks like Embarq Corporation customer service asking you for vital information-MESSAGE FROM Patrick County of Chamber
Date: December 16, 2008
To: Patrick County Chamber of Commerce Membership
We have been getting numerous e-mail messages from what looks like Embarq Corporation customer service asking you for vital information such as:
Password, username, date of birth, country or territory
Here is a quote from Embarq official contacts:
“EMBARQ does not ever solicit or request personal information from our customers via email. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact our customer service at 1-877-6GO-DATA (1-877-646-3282).�
These fraudulent messages are called “phishing e-mails� and they are actually spam.
I hope this is helpful to you, because many of you are e-mail customers of Embarq.
Sincerely,
Tom Bishop
Executive Director
276-694-6012
Definition from Wikepedia:
Phishing-(fish´ing) (n.) The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise
in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.
