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Re-validate webmail ????

I received an email from: Provider IT Tech as follows:


Your Cox! Web mail version is outdated and has expired.
Failure to Upgrade to the newest Cox! Web mail now will result in a permanent account closure.
According to provision 17.8 of Terms and Conditions, Cox! Web mail may at any time terminate its services for accounts.
Visit ITS Help-Desk Here To re-validate your mailbox .
Note: Failure to comply with 24 hrs might lead to permanent deactivation.
Thank you!
Cox! Web mail

How do I RE-VALIDATE???? Is this legit??? I have no idea what I am expected to do. FWIW I am using OUTLOOK 2016 as my email client. Thanx.

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Bruce

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It's not legit.  A scuzzball wrote it...a scuzzball sent it...and a scuzzball is baiting you to click a link.

Why is the name "Cox" exclamatory?
How does a subscriber update webmail?
There is no provision 17.8 in a Terms and Conditions.

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That is definitely a phishing email. If there was ever a webmail upgrade, this would be done on our end and you would not need to any upgrades on your side. You can forward this as an attachment to phishingreport@cox.com

www.cox.com/.../reporting-spam-phishing-and-virus-abuse.html

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@Bruce, @WiderMouthOpen This is mostly unrelated to OP's post, but I watched an episode of "America's Book of Secrets" on History Channel the other night entitled "Big Bother is Watching" that I think you might find interesting. 

Near the first of the program, the narrator says something like "There are those that believe in the existence of a book...".  All it takes for the complete statement to be true is for someone at History Channel to have told a couple of hard core conspiracy theorists that it exists.  For the record, I'm not a believer.  Keep in mind this program is from the same people that brought us "Ancient Aliens", stories about Bigfoot, etc.  But, some of it could be real.  (Hello, NSA ). 😒

It's currently available On Demand: TV > TV Networks > Networks H-M > History > America's Book HD > America's Book Secrets S1 Ep09 HD     

I'd be interested in hearing what you think.

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Bruce

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A book of what?

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The title of the program is "America's Book of Secrets: Special Edition".  The complete narrator's statement is "There are those that believe in the existence of a book, a book that contains the most highly guarded secrets of the United States of America.  A book whose very existence is known to only a select few".  You can probably see where I got the the conspiracy theorists part.  The "book of secrets" is History Channel nonsense, but some of the things referenced in the program could be real.

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I guess you'd need to define "secret" because what are they referring to...Bigfoot, Jimmy Hoffa, why is Lindsey Graham not married?

If they're referring to the US Gov't, then, yes, I'd be surprised if America didn't safeguard many tomes of secrets.  I've read newly-elected presidents succumb to Canities Subita after being briefed on said secrets.  I was in the military, stationed overseas, worked on the flightline and clearly briefed on what'd happen to me if our base was overtaken.  It's a farfetched scenario but a scenario nonetheless; however, I knew secrets and those secrets had to remain secrets.

The funny thing about secrets is only trusted people know secrets.  If somebody reveals a secret, you can't trust them.  If you can't trust them, it's probably not a secret.

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The "Big Brother is Watching" episode isn't about Bigfoot, Jimmy Hoffa or any of those kinds of secrets.  It's about technology tools used by our government to safeguard American citizens from terrorist attacks.  For example, Osama Bin Laden was supposedly identified via facial recognition software from a satellite.

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Overhead facial recognition from space?  Yet we can't find a Malaysian aircraft or hordes of white supremacists terrorizing our streets?  If this technology exists, I'd think you'd see more gov't employees wearing big, floppy hats...veils...or buckets.

Ripley's Believe It or Not! was popular in its day because it exploited our natural curiosity and resistance to reason.  It's just entertainment.

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