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From: Sears Card [mailto:accounts@searscard.com]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:47 AM
Subject: Sears Card Account Payment Notification

Sears Card Account Payment Notification

A payment posted to your Sears Card account on or before 30 October 2006.

IP address: 86.102.33.19

Because the Lookup Country for this IP address, we decided to restrict your Sears Card account features in order to protect our entire payment system form future fraudulent transactions. To report unauthorized use of your account, to change your password, to check available credit, or for more information about your account, go to:

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us/cards/update.php?CARD=update

This message is for information purposes only.

Please understand that we cannot respond to individual messages through this email address. It is not secure and should not be used for credit card account related questions.

For questions about your credit card, please Contact Us:

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After you have submitted your information, check for a response within 4-four business days. Just return to the Write to Customer Care section and select the View/Update Messages link.

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Why would you go to anything but http:// www. sears. com?

While I have a sears account, and they have my email address, it’s not one used for ANY other purpose. Also, that email account, is EXCLUSIVELY Sears! So if something, anything, comes purporting to be from Sears on ANY other email account, it is –prima facie (on its face) –res ipsa loquitur (it speaks for itself) — a FRAUD!

Even if you don’t want to go to the trouble of setting up different email accounts for different financial uses, you can do the same thing with gmail. Use the plus sign when you give out your gmail account to anyone. Regardless if you use or don’t rules or sort on it, it’s its own credential. After all how many spammers are going to guess that 6D4EAEBB87685D @ gmail.com will go thru with their spam fraud, but that the had to say 6D4EAEBB87685D + 57USHYW1 for me to really believe it was from the real Sears. (I know the address from writing them nasty letters.)

So maybe I create a code log. And, +58BD is Pennys, +BDFD is food town, +7BB3 is my bank, and +A6F1 is my credit union.

Go ahead try and fool me!

I can even carry a list in my wallet of the next forty strings. If I lose it NBD (no big deal). I can just make up another.

You don’t need to risk being fooled. You can take simple steps to protect yourself. I’ll help.

Here are some random plus codes for your to use:

5DC6E8 748A46 C9737A 4D5C6F
E5634C 3D4D42 222986 8C8F5A
CF9678 F349F3 776962 355D48
EEDD4D 53A768 C25D4F DA356E
698A7E 7768B3 C9F39B E244F8

Yell if you need more!