Someone sent me a forwarded "scam warning" e-mail recently that I was almost tempted to pass along. Scam warnings are traditionally "e-mail viruses" whose purpose is to trick people into forwarding it everywhere, and e-mail forwards in general are lame and a little bit evil by their very nature. But the warning seemed plausible enough that I thought I'd look it up and link to it instead.

About.com has a description of this telephone-based credit card security code scam, and agrees the moral is good advice even if it's not something that's actually happening.

I tend to think that banks wanting me to switch to paperless banking is its own kind of scam, but the threat of mail theft, and subsequent scam potential, is almost a good enough reason to do it...