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Protect yourself online.(your letters)(Letter to the Editor)

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| November 01, 2004 | Rossi, Mario F.; Srednicki, Mark; Gillitt, Miriam | COPYRIGHT 2004 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Your cover article in September, "Protect Yourself Online," was excellent and extremely timely. This morning I received an e-mail from U.S. Bank, asking me to update my account data. I am not a customer of that bank. I called U.S. Bank in Cincinnati and was told that it did not send this mall. A classic example of phishing! I contacted the FBI and was asked to forward the e-mail to the Secret Service and to file a complaint on an FBI Web site, www.ifccfbi.gov. I also sent a copy to the fraud department of U.S. Bank and to my ISP.

MARIO F. ROSSI TRUMBULL, CT

You neglect to mention that the easiest way to avoid entirely the problem of spyware, adware, malware, etc., is to use an operating system other than the ...

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