News from PrivateOpps

Here is the news from PrivateOpps regarding PHISHING ATTACK WARNING:

Dear Participant,

PrivateOpps has received several reports of a new phishing attack that targets our Participants.

According to Wikipedia, "phishing is a form of criminal activity using social engineering techniques, characterized by attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an apparently official electronic communication, such as an email or an instant message."

Users who have received these emails in the past few days report that the emails were made to appear as if they came from us, enticing the user to access "our" website by clicking on a link included in the email. Once clicked, that link takes you to a bogus website that looks very much like ours, but will attempt to record your PrivateOpps account access information by asking you to log-in to your account.

And so we repeat our usual warning:

DO NOT CLICK ON ANY PRIVATEOPPS-RELATED LINKS INCLUDED IN ANY EMAILS THAT YOU RECEIVE.

Never! No matter what the email is telling you, please DO NOT CLICK on any link.

To access our site, ALWAYS type-in our domain in your browser or use a bookmark entry that you KNOW is safe.

Phishing emails will often try to convince you to click on such links by trying to get you excited and impatient ("your account has been suspended", "a big deposit just came in", etc.)

Remember - no matter how convincing it may sound - WE NEVER include links in emails we send out.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Robert Vaughn
Operations Manager
PrivateOpps.com