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     Upon returning from Daytona I had an E-mail that was from 'AOL mbr Services' stating that this months charge to my credit card for my AOL service had been denied. The E-mail was very official looking, and had an AOL logo on it once opened, but it didn't have the little blue AOL symbol next to it when it was listed in my E-mail to be opened (this came across as immediately suspicious because all official AOL mail has that symbol next to it). The letter went on to say that if I didn't update my profile with a usable credit card number within 24 hours my account would be immediately terminated (which seemed a bit severe figuring that your prepaid a month ahead of time). The E-mail had a link that was supposedly directly to AOL's member services where you were supposed to update your info, but I wasn't falling for this at all. I contacted my credit card company which said the normal charge to my account had been made on time. I then noticed the date on the mail and the E-mail was already almost a week old at this point so I called AOL to make them aware of it.

     Speaking with AOL they told me they will never ask for credit card or password info in an E-mail from them. They also said that they already had a couple other people who had caught on to this scam and that AOL was already investigating it and changing their system to not allow AOL to be used as part of a screen name that could be used illegally. The problem they said was that the 24 hour time frame listed on the E-mail had already past and that the scam had alreay been terminated by its originator.

     This jumps forward to today when I recieve the same scam under the name 'member services'. I called AOL immediately with plenty of time left to go in the 24 hour period this time and forwarded the E-mail to them. I was the 1st one to report this attempted scam and this time they have something to work with. As I was on the phone with them they were setting a trap to catch this jerk and said that most likely he would be getting a visit very soon by law enforcement. I'm just glad I was home today as a Holiday day off of work. I think it would solve alot of problems to just locate the person(s) doing this and simply publish their personal info like phone # and address. Though I would imagine there are others who would volunteer as well, I would gladly go and 'visit' with the person(s) involved and 'discuss' them not doing this again.  ;)  ;D

AOL is still in business? People still use it?  ;D :P ;)

QuoteAOL is still in business? People still use it?  ;D :P ;)

LOL!!!                                  ;D


Good job, Mike!

I have gotten pretty much the same thing from Paypal and Ebay. I also got one one time from a bank that I don't even bank with.  :P

Too funny! ;D

Be happy you didn't "update" your information.  We received a phone call from a customer earlier this week who did.  Same scam using AOL appearance.  Within a few days false indentities were already being established and credit requested in his name.
Nasty stuff. >:(