"WEB FORGERY" IDENTIFIED BY MY SECURITY PROGRAMS!!!

[Clipper]

jUST A WARNING FOR ANYONE THAT MAY GET THIS BOGUS ALERT MESSAGE THAT I HAVE COPIED AND PASTED BELOW! I got an email on my yahoo email account advising me that I would lose my email connection soon if I didn't upgrade as described in the email shown below. My security program flashed a red screen advising that this yahoo message was a "web forgery" and gave me the block to click on to "continue" or a place to click to "get me out of here."

It seems that everyone and their brother is trying to hack into your computers lately, and install malware or steal your data.


Mail
To
me
Today at 9:14 AM
YahooDear Yahoo user,

This is a final notification that Yahoo Mail will be replaced by our new version, So it's time to upgrade before you loose email access. WHEN YOU UPGRADE YOUR EMAIL
Your email service won't be affected, and you'll keep all your old contacts, Folders and messages

faster email
the latest spam protection
unlimited email storage.
How you upgrade
Click on the link below and follow the instructions. You'll also need to agree to some new terms and conditions.

UPDATE NOW

If your browser displays a message saying it won't support the new version of Yahoo! Mail, you'll need to update your browser (it's easy and free) then you can go on to upgrade.
If you don't upgrade now, If you want to carry on getting your emails, you need to upgrade now, because the Classic version of Yahoo! Mail will stop working if not updated.

Thank you,
Yahoo!
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[dave]

Yes, I received a similar message, supposedly from my cable provider. In fact it looked very good ... professional graphics and real English. So often the hackers are easy to recognize because of their bad English.

Anyway, the one from the cable company was good enough for me to call them up and ask if it was from them. It wasn't.

[Clipper]

I am very wary of such stuff since having to spend the money to have both of my computers scrubbed to rid them of the infamous "Astromenda" that I downloaded through a bogus prompt to download an update to an Adobe program.

[dave]

Yup, I somehow picked up astromenda also. Cleaned it from Firefox. Haven't done so on Chrome or IEXplorer yet. I figure I just won't use them. If they can't provide something quick to help me clean that stuff from THEIR browsers, then it's their loss that I'm not using them.