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    OMG, Lies!

    I was sent the following email... this has to be lies :/
    No freeserve heading or anything....
    Cant get any IP info from message sorce...
    Anyone else get something similar?


    Dear Freeserve Member,

    We wrote to you a while ago to let you know we're going to be making some improvements to FSmail, our free, easy-to-use web based email service that lets you send and receive your emails from any computer connected to the Internet.

    If you use FSmail at the moment, here's what's going to happen between the 14th and the 19th of August 2003, when the upgrade to the FSmail service will be taking place.

    1.The login box won't be displayed on the Freeserve Homepage or on the Communications Zone on the 14th August 2003, but you can still log in by going to www.fsmail.net.

    2.All of your account settings, such as your Signature and Address Book, will be copied over to your updated account between the 15th August and 19th August 2003. Please don't change your password until after the 19th August or your changes might be lost.

    3.You'll still be able to send and receive emails during this period, you just won't be able to:

    a.Add or edit a Signature
    b.Add or edit your Address Book entries

    4.FSmail will be given a whole new look on the afternoon of the 16th August. If you're in your FSmail account at the time when the changes are being made, you may be logged out. If this happens don't worry, all you need to do is log back in again and continue using it.

    If you would like to keep up to date with all of the changes we're making please go to our Service Status page at http://www.freeserve.com/help/servicestatus.htm during the upgrade period.

    We hope you enjoy using the new service!

    Kind Regards,

    Freeserve Customer Support


    This email has been sent from an automated mailbox. Sorry, we cannot reply to emails sent to this address.

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    That url (fsmail.net) does redirect to http://fsmail.freeserve.com/ so I reckon it's pukka.
    "All our beliefs are being challenged now, and rightfully so, they're stupid." - Bill Hicks

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    Still..... its not from the normal email address, nor does it have the standard header or footer.......

    Oh well, don't even use web-mail

    Just thought, if it was fake, best let people know about it.

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    I agree it does sound a bit dodgy...
    "All our beliefs are being challenged now, and rightfully so, they're stupid." - Bill Hicks

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    drop FS an email and show them what you have received?

    ask them if they can verify if this information is correct



    *Disclaimer* - The contents of this message are not necessarily my own opinions,thoughts or views... they may belong to the voices in my head!

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    yea i got that email. But i got it from freeserve customer support, so i think its real

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    Domain registrant appears to be freeserve (based in hemel hempstead)

    Looks kosher.

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    I'd try to login with a fake username and password - see if it's a dummy capture script

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    Does it really matter? I can't see anything in that email that is bad in any way, it's not saying "we're going to delete you account unless you pay us" and it doesn't link to a fake password grabbing page.

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    Whats so bad about the email?

    Or have I completly missed something? :/

    Nick

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    I'm a freeserve user and I have recvd the same e-mail (and I think I vaguely remember recving a previous warning about it some time ago)

    think it is genuine

    Windog

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    Although Freeserver is my ISP, I've never used FSmail (I'm still using my original CompuServer e-mail) so while I think I may have received that mail, I'd never have paid any notice to it anyway...
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