The days of hacking are over when the hacker used to wrack his brains to match the log in name with the password.

Enter…Duping! Today the hacker wants to take it easy. He doesn’t want to wrack his brains. So, what does he do? He sends you a message purportedly from “Yahoo” which reads as follows:

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Yahoo Warning Account Now To Avoid Suspension !!!
Saturday, March 28, 2009 12:39 AM
From:
“Yahoo! Mail Alert!!”
Add sender to Contacts
To:
undisclosed-recipients

Account Alert

Dear Valued Member,

Due to the congestion in all Yahoo account users and removal of all unused Yahoo Accounts,Yahoo would be shutting down all unused Accounts,You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Info below after clicking the reply botton, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.

User name:.................................
Password :.................................
Date of Birth :..............................
Country Or Territory :....................
After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account before 24 hours of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Thank you for using Yahoo! mail
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
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I received the above mail alert today which has purportedly been sent by Yahoo. It has all the trappings of an original message from the hosts of the Yahoo site. But, what alerted me was the reply address: vzeot7ta@verizon.net

How can the reply to a Yahoo mail to one of its users be diverted to a personal address. Whoever the owner “vzeot7ta@verizon.net” is, he is quite smart. But, people like him or her can be smart only if you are not smarter.

Now, if you aren’t a little careful, you may respond to it by furnishing your name, password, date of birth and country or territory. By doing that you would not only give him free access to your account but also let him reactivate your account in case it is closed by Yahoo because he has all the information he needs to do that. And, you are the only who gave him all the details so naively.

So, if you receive a similar mail, you know what to do. Don’t respond to it. There is a ‘delete’ button on your keyboard. Just press that and delete the message.

The one person who is most well equipped to save your e-mail account is: YOU! So, be smart and do not be DUPED!