Fraudulent Email:

"Dear Earthlink User,
This email is a reminder that your EarthLink account information is not
up-to-date. To avoid any interruption to your service including the ability
to log onto EarthLink, please update your credit or debit card information.

If you do not update your credit or debit card information you may no longer
be able to use EarthLink.

This is your final notice. Please take a moment to update your credit card
information by clicking here and submitting your information.

Please note that we will attempt to renew your service five days from today.
If we are still unable to charge your credit card at that time, your service
will be terminated.

Sincerely,
Earthlink Billing Department"

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Earthlink Says:

"We were made aware of this site recently and took immediate steps to contact
the host of the site, to have it removed from
service.

For future reference, EarthLink will never ask you to respond to an email
with sensitive information like your full credit card number. We recognize
that email may not be a secure way to send such important information.

The only place EarthLink would direct you to update your personal
information would be through the My Account page:
http://myaccount.earthlink.net

Before submitting any personal information in response to an email that
appears to be from EarthLink, please visit our "Verify a Website" tool in
the upper right corner of the EarthLink Support Center.
http://support.earthlink.net

Simply type in the Web address, and, if it's a legitimate Web site supported
by EarthLink or an EarthLink partner, we'll connect you to the site. If the
Web address is NOT legitimate, we'll notify you and
report the address to our Fraud department.

Also, our exclusive spamBlocker service protects you from receiving most
fraudulent emails. For more information on spamBlocker, and additional ways
to identify and avoid online scams, please visit:
http://www.earthlink.net/fraud"