Hotmails!! Hoax eMails!!

Philippines
September 15, 2010 10:14am CST
I just received three hoax emails from a hoax website trying to appear with subjects as the following: 1. Educational Grant 2. Loan Processing (for approval) 3. Sorry, I forgot about the third one since I've immediately deleted it (and had emptied my trash already) after marking it as "Phishing Scam" You will see it as from "Education Grant" and "Loan Processing" and another name. The thing they all have in common is that you will see the email address as :info@ktn.americanopinionpanel.info I would have mistaken it for an another site that I signed up a year ago. I signed up at American Consumer Opinion. When I read the "Loan Processing" thing asking for my credit card details, I immediately knew it was a hoax email. If you click some links, it will even bring you to a site which was clearly a hoax also. You can tell from the design the word scam was written all over it. Have you experienced this too? Now, I feel that hotmail is not a secured site..
2 responses
greenline
@greenline (14838)
• Canada
20 Sep 10
I am using other email addresses, for personal and business needs. Oh, yes, lots of junk mails come into my email address. Really so amazing. One can easily get attracted to those shams, and get into trouble. We have to be very careful about them, and not to respond to them unless one is absolutely certain about the authencity of the contents.
diamania
@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
15 Sep 10
Saying that Hotmail is not a secured site is based on sand. Hotmail did not send those emails nor is Hotmail legally responsible for filtering them and all consequences that comes with it. It's your legal responsibility to determine the legitimacy of all emails and information you read on the internet. You can't just sling mud to everything and everyone without knowing your legal position.
lalay1976
@lalay1976 (330)
• Philippines
16 Sep 10
Hey diamania. I just realized that I failed to mention about my first experience of my hotmail account being hacked and now this one. What am I supposed to conclude? Funny thing because someone hacked it easily and when I was the one using it one time, I was asked to enter a capcha just "to make sure I was human". Sure it wasn't hotmail itself who sent it to me and I've received spams in my other email accounts (in other sites) but only in hotmail do I experience this. You sound like you're pretty satisfied with hotmail's services yourself. I'm not saying this to disillusion about the site. I'm telling this as a warning! And sure it can also happen to any other email service provider. I had to say the site isn't secured because that's what I felt. I had to mention hotmail because that's where I experienced it. Had it been yahoo or gmail or AOL for that matter, I would still mention it. Thank you for pointing out that it is "my legal responsibility" to determine the legitimacy of the emails.