This was pasted in a national lapbooking group and I ran to snopes to check it out. There is no report from snopes, so it is up in the air as to the authenticity. In the meantime, please be aware of this..... heads up: scam alert Hey, gals: Just a heads up -- there's a relatively new scam making the rounds. It's called "mamasource. com" and it purports to be an online community/msg board where moms can exchange information w/in local networks. After getting a suspicious message tonight from a fellow homeschool mom, I did some research and here's what I've found: there's some point either in joining the boards or in sending "flowers" to friends where it asks you to input your password for your email account. Yeah, I know -- that should be a red flag to most people, but I got a flower tonight that seemed to be from someone I know, and I suspect that the site may now have wormed its way into her entire contact list. The business behind the scam apparently then sells the email addresses to spammers... "Flowers" from the site will be from mamasource@. .. -- but they will have a nickname from someone you know... Be careful out there!
I got an email (with link to join) from one of the moms I know at MOPS but it was sent from mamasource. I did not respond and got about 5 more emails ... persistant little snots.
The thread in the group goes on to say that they site itself may be a legit site, but that there is a virus or worm going around the mail system that is piggy-backing on members legit address books... If you are a member of that site, you should give someone a heads-up before you send them flowers or an invite, because the virus or worm is using these methods to grow itself, or whatever..
I received one of these as well. I went. It had me put in some information, and THEN it asked my permission to go into my address book and send all of my "friends" invites. I just closed the window. I still get "daily digests" from there, whatever they're for - I didn't open them. And I'm not sure if mails went out to my contacts or not - no one asked me about it. But it DID ask permission to go into my address book and send out the invites. Anyway. Yes, it does that. I'm not sure that it's a worm or whatever though. Maybe a spambot or something.
