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 I recently got the following e-mail:

Message-Id: <20060412210310.8D51A9A268@badtzmaru.sd.valuehost.com>

Date: Thu, 25 May 2006  10:03:10 -0700 (PDT)

Dear customer,

We have received a notice from your card service stating that there was a chargeback made by the owner of the card that
you paid for your account with.  This is a very serious matter.  I have deducted the amount of the chargeback, GBP 119.40,
from your account and added our standard fee of GBP 25.00 as well. (Now you can see your payment details in attachment.)

If there was some mistake, please let us know immediately so that we
can get this situation resolved.  We ask that you have the chargeback
removed as soon as possible, as our account has already been debited for the amount in question.  
If you would prefer to make your payment using a new payment
method that would be fine as well (you can use a different credit card or you may send a money order payable to
Valuehost).

This is a time sensitive issue and must be resolved promptly at the
request of the card service.  Please email the billing team using the Web Administration Panel with information about how
you are going to deal with this situation.
I thank you for your time and hope to hear from you
soon.

See your payment details in attachment.

Sincerely,
Mark J. Burnett
Valuehost Billing Department
http://www.valuehost.com/

There was also a file attachment, mentioned in the e-mail, which could contain all sorts of lovely things that you do not want on your computer.

This is a scam e-mail to get you to part with credit card information and under no circumstances should you reply to an e-mail like this or open any attachments.  If it is a company you recognise and do business with then contact them by telephone or by post to see if it is a genuine problem.  Also look at their web site, do not follow any links from the e-mail but go to your browser and type the correct address into the address bar.

Look at the http://www.valuehost.com/ website and in the top left hand corner you will see a warning about this particular scam.