Latest Scam

Just got an email thanking me for my payment of $1290.00 to Verizon via Visa credit card. Obviously a scam... is there any way to report this to Verizon without going through their horrendous phone labyrinth of options...trying to get somebody real with them is like venus crossing in the front of the sun yesterday....I tried sending the scammer a nasty note but it bounced. See attached for what this character's trying to do. I've saved the bounced resonse to an .rtf file if anybody's interested... maybe even somebody from Verizon?
>File attachment removed as it contained personal info and also profanity that is not allowed on this site<
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This just happened to me to the tune of 1489.56. Foolishly I checked on "go to your account online". McAffee notified me that they had just disabled a Trojan had just been downloaded. At the same time I was unable to access my account either on my phone or computer. Other scams like this for other companies have had a slightly altered origin email, but this was legit. Has someone hacked into Verizon? I wanted to notify Verizon right away, but this was impossible, so I got on a forum right away.
I will forward to the above.

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    Boonaboon wrote:
    Hi,
    Just for sharing. Recently i've lost my ipad mini 2 wifi only(with passcode on, ios 8.2). I gone through many website try to find a way to track or recover but there's no solution except changing my apple id password for security reason. But 2 days ago someone send me a sms to my phone (since i use find my iphone apps and report as lost phone with my handphone number hope that someone will contact me). that person just mention they bought an stolen ipad from somehwere and ask me as if i were owner. Of course i replied yes and told them i would pay some money for them if they return the ipad to me. But there's no reply. The next day i got a sms stated that : LOST IPAD LOCATION HAS BEEN FOUND, PLEASE SIGN IN AND VERIFY YOU APPLE ID ON HTTP://verify.appleidlocation.com APPLE SUPPORT.
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    Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will bring in and additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only 5 replies each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!! Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this messageto 200 newsgroups with my name at #1 and if still ONLY 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive $15,625.00!! With a original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to the names on the list, putting your name back at #6 again. And start posting again. The thing to remember is: do you realize that thousands of people all over the world are joining the internet and reading these articles everday?, JUST LIKE YOU ARE NOW!! So, can you afford $6.00 and see if it really works?? I think so...people have said, "what if the plan is played out and no one sends you the money?" So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are tons of new honest users and new honest people who are joining the internet and newsgroups everyday and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day, with thousands of those joining the actual internet!!! REMEMBER, PLAY FAIRLY AND HONESTLY AND THIS WILL WORK FOR YOU!!! Good luck to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards from this, which is tons of extra CASH. By the way, please DON'T try to deceive people by posting the messages with your name on the list and not sending the CASH to the rest of the people already on the list, you will NOT get any. This is the fairest and most honest way I have ever seen to share the wealth of the world without costing anything but our time!! You also may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future cash. Make sure you print this article out RIGHT NOW!!! Also, try to keep a list of everyone that sends you CASH and always keep an eye on the newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing fairly. Remember, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. IMPORTANT: If you're not interested in my article, (don't want instant cash), please pass this message to anyone who wishes quick money. Thank you so much.==============================

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    This is purely a report over an audit table. The "key" column represents the key columns of another table of what data has been inserted, updated or deleted.
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    ORDER_NO
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    SEQUENCE_NO
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    where ORDER_NO=35399
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    and SEQUENCE_NO='* this is a unqiue row which has been audited.
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    ID,KEY
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