Internet Scam: Email Account Phishing Scam

Here is an example of where scammers try and collect up your email account information, mostly to get into your account so they can send out more spam emails to catch other people's personal and financial information, until they can hit on getting credit card numbers, or access to their paypal account. It does typically happen more with the web-based email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.

Never click on links within emails when you have received a notification that something is wrong with ANY account. Always open a new browser window and manually type in the url and check yourself. And make sure you have a good password. And that you change it periodically.

From: Yahoo! Account Service! [churchofgoddc@sbcglobal.net]
Date: July 26, 2012 12:36:37 PM PDT
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: ACCOUNT UPDATING!!

Dear Valid User,

This is for your own safety to avoid your account closed,you will have to verify your account by Clicking Here (actually links out to http://erteresrhergeeg.3owl.com/siaxxxsia1.html which is definitely NOT yahoo). We apologies for any inconvenience.