Sunday, March 9, 2008

Another AOLer Has Moved Their AOL Journal

Here is a link to a blog post from someone that moved their AOL Journal to another blog site - in this case Blogger.com.

It seems that they were dis-heartened by the fact that AOL has now put banner ads at the top of their AOL Journals.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Be Sure To Watch Out For This Kind Of Illegitmate Email!

Here is a copy of an email sent to an AOL member:

Welcome to AOL Customer Support

Dear AOL Member

Contact Us

Have a question regarding your AOL account?

Contact us now!

E-mail your questions: Call us at 1-888-265-8005

It has come to our attention that your AOL Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information. Failure to update your records will result in account termination. Please update your records within 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records, your AOL session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems. You must click the link below and enter your login information on the following page to confirm your Billing Information records..

Thank You


Click here to update your account


Of course the link that was provided did not go to any offical AOL site that I know of!

If you are an AOL member and you get this kind of email in your email box, DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK that is included with that email. Contact AOL DIRECTLY!.

AOL has said itself that their staff will never ask you for your log-in information!