An Email with the Subject "Fw: Your Yahoo! Sponsored Search Account Alert Notification" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:55:57 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "David Vignali" <vignalid@bellsouth.net>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
----- Original Message -----
From: Yahoo! Search Marketing
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:30 AM
Subject: Your Yahoo! Sponsored Search Account Alert
Notification Account Alert Notification !Dear Advertiser,
Copyright ©2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights
reserved.
Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1697 - Release Date: 9/29/2008 7:40 AM |
Dear Advertiser,
Account
Notification: Account 'Yahoo! Inc' [20674324322] has stopped
displaying ads at this time because the account balance has reached zero.
For more information
regarding this alert, please log into your account at:
https://marketingsolutions.login.yahoo.com/adui/signin/displaySignin.do
and click the "View All" link in the Alerts panel. For additional help, please
visit our Help Center.
Sincerely,
Your Partners at Yahoo! Search
Marketing
Failure to login and update your
information may lead in deactivating you account.
Please do not respond directly to this email, as we are
unable to receive replies at this address. To contact Yahoo! Customer Support,
please log into your account at
https://marketingsolutions.login.yahoo.com/adui/signin/displaySignin.do
and click the Customer Support link in the upper right of the
page.
Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.