I alerted Alex but have not heard from him. I forwarded him a copy and deleted mine.

Mike showed me the phishing email, and it's a rather known phishing/scam/virus that's been circulating in the web for a while and is known to infiltrate your address book and send out phishing emails to your friends. The scam email will look something like this -- so, if you see anything that looks like that, don't click anything, simply delete it. And there's some concussion on this at this blog.

Cheers,
...Alex

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