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- Email Fraud Alert: City Police warning of computer scam
By CITY POLICE SGT. LISA KENOPIC
Posted 11 days ago
The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service received information yesterday afternoon about another computer scam occurring in the Toronto area. No local complaints have been received, but police would like to advise the public so that they do not fall victim to this scam.
the e-mails are being sent by persons claiming to be with Rogers Customer Care.
The alert is for anyone with a Rogers Account and involves an e-mail being sent by persons claiming to be with Rogers Customer Care. The e-mail message advises the customer that their e-mail needs to be updated with our released F-Secure Internet Security 2012 new version of a better resource webmail spam and viruses. If you have not upgraded your account, click reply and fill in the columns below to send it back so we can update our database account immediately. Failure to update will process your webmail.rci.rogers.com account being temporarily blocked or suspended from our network and may not be able to receive or send e-mail due to the update.
Fill the column below:
USERNAME:
PASSWORD:
Phone:
We apologize for the inconvenience; we are here to make it look better webmail 2012.
This is a fraud! If you receive one of these e-mails, do not respond and report it to police.
If you have any information regarding these crimes or any other crime, call the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service at 705-949-6300 or Crime Stoppers at 942-7867 or 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS); submit an e-tip from the Crime Stoppers web site at www.saultcrimestoppers.com or text keyword SSM with your tip to 274637.
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