A good reason to use unique email addresses for each of your “special” correspondents. Just like passwords, unique. A little bit of trouble to administrate, but it certainly isolates the trouble. And, it’s trivial to do when you have your own domain. You can even subcontract the email to GMAIL if you want by repointing a few records. It also automagicaly detects financial spam, when a message purporting to be from “your bank” arrives on the “wrong email” account. Wish I could teach this technique to more people. We could have email “security” even if the ISPs don’t want to do IPv6 or email providers, like Yahoo, won’t authenticate when email arrives from outside labeled as if originated from Yahoo itself. (I even tried to sell them a consulting engagement but they said “it wasn’t their problem”. With an attitude like that, no wonder we have problems.)
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Dear Valued Customer,
On March 30th, we were informed by Epsilon, a company we use to send emails to our customers, that files containing the email addresses of some Walgreens customers were accessed without authorization.
We have been assured by Epsilon that the only information that was obtained was your email address. No other personally identifiable information was at risk because such data is not contained in Epsilon’s email system.
For your security, we encourage you to be aware of common email scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Walgreens will not send you emails asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If ever asked for this information, you can be confident it is not from Walgreens.
We regret this has taken place and any inconvenience this may have caused you. If you have any questions regarding this issue, please contact us at 1-855-814-0010. We take your privacy very seriously, and we will continue to work diligently to protect your personal information.
Sincerely,
Walgreens Customer Service Team
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.
This is a system-generated Walgreens email. Replies will not be read or forwarded for handling.
Copyright 2010 Walgreen Co., 200 Wilmot Road, Deerfield, IL 60015-4620. All rights reserved.
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For our Chinese-speaking
customers:
As a valued Scottrade customer or someone who previously provided us with your email address, we want to make you aware of a situation that affects your email security. We have been notified by Epsilon, a company we use to send emails, that an unauthorized person outside of their company accessed records that contained your name and email address.
This incident occurred at Epsilon. We want to assure you that Scottrade’s systems were not affected and your account information remains secure.
The security of your information is important to us and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. You may receive an increase in spam email as a result of this incident. We encourage you to be cautious when opening emails, links or attachments from unknown sources. Scottrade will never ask you for personal or account information in an email.
Email is not a secure communications channel. Please do not reply to this message with sensitive information, such as account number, social security number or password.
Brokerage Products and Services offered by Scottrade, Inc. –
Member FINRA/SIPC.
To ensure Scottrade emails do not get blocked from your inbox, please add scottrade@email.scottrade.com to your address book.
This email was sent by:
Scottrade, Inc.
P.O. Box 31759
Saint Louis, MO 63131-0759
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To ensure our emails reach your inbox, please add email@info.verizon.com to your address book.
Dear Verizon Customer,
We have been informed by Epsilon, a provider of Verizon’s email marketing services, that your email address was exposed due to unauthorized access to its systems. Verizon uses Epsilon to send marketing communications on our behalf.
Epsilon has assured us that the information exposed was limited to email addresses, and that no other information about you or your account was exposed.
As always, you should be cautious when opening email links or attachments from unknown or suspicious parties, or emails purporting to be from Verizon and asking for financial or account password information. It is our policy to never ask for this information in emails. If you receive such emails, do not reply to them. You can report suspect or unwanted emails to Verizon at abuse@verizon.net and can obtain more information on how to protect against spam and phishing attacks on Verizon’s Privacy Policy page by clicking on “Tips for Guarding Your Information” located at the top right hand corner of the page. Our privacy policy can be found at Verizon.com/privacy.
We regret any inconvenience this may cause you. Please be assured that we take the privacy of your information very seriously.
Sincerely,
Verizon
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