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ComSec
By ANNE BECKER --September 28, 2003

That's what some Internet users are saying after being targeted by a new spam scam that features a bogus bill from florist 1-800-Flowers.com.

The fake e-mail, which began dropping into mailboxes of America Online account holders about two weeks ago, tells recipients that their AOL account will be debited up to $80 for flowers they never ordered - unless they take steps to terminate the bill.

The e-mail refers recipients to a Web site, a near-clone of the real 1-800-Flowers.com homepage, to resolve the matter. The fraudulent Web site then asks for an AOL account name and password - a common trick by hackers, who then use the information to raid Web sites using the victim's identity...continued

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