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The Domain Name you visited has been locked and removed from Lycos' Services for TOS Violations.

Please review the following reasons for the potential reason why this Domain Name was removed from service.

Phishing:

Phishing is a technique used to gain personal information for purposes of identity theft, using fraudulent e-mail messages or web pages that appear to come from legitimate businesses. These authentic looking messages are designed to fool recipients into divulging personal data such as account numbers and passwords, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers.

The best way to avoid becoming a phishing victim is to remember that real companies almost never send e-mail asking you to submit personal data.

Forward emails that you suspect may be phishing attempts to spam@uce.gov and to the company, bank, or organization impersonated in the phishing email or web site. Most organizations have information on their websites about where to report problems.

To learn more about this, please visit the following websites:

http://www.digitalphishnet.net/default.aspx
http://www.antiphishing.org/
http://www.phishreport.net/ 

If you believe you’ve been victimized or want to report a phishing attack, please visit the websites below:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/
http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm

 

Nigerian 419 / Advance Free fraud e-mail:

An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain.  Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter 419 fraud.

To learn more about this, please visit the following websites:

 

http://aa419.org/
http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm#nigerian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp

 

 

Below you will find web sites that offer helpful ways to report incidents of fraudulent business activities:

http://www.fraud.com
http://www.natlconsumersleague.org/nettest.htm
http://www.naag.org/default.htm
https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

 

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