(No intentions of discrediting Yahoo they are one of my favorite companies. This just seems suspicious)

A new email out there is being sent with a new spoof of Citibank. The email is html and looks exactly like a professional warning. It states that there is identity theft involved with your account and you must log on immediately. Here is more:

FROM: CITI
SUBJECT: ATTENTION CITIBANK CLIENT

The message is not text, but instead sent as an image, something obviously done to prevent spam programs from picking it up. Also, the entire image is linked. I have to admit, someone actually took an extra minute working on it.

I received it myself, and I am not sure if they really think I am that dumb to click on a bank that I have never even banked with before.

So why am I suspicious that my email was hacked? Maybe because this email address doesn't exist to anyone except me! I sent a message to myself from a Yahoo account on another computer in attempt to transfer some files. This is the first email the address had ever received. This email was BIG and surely grabbed attention.

What worries me is evidence that there could be a Yahoo employee (or even one at my host) spamming email addresses. I am not joking, this email address didn't exist until yesterday, and the spoof was sent awfully timely. There has already been an issue with an AOL employee, could there be more?

I decided to do a little investigating myself, so I clicked on the image anyway. I really have nothing to worry about (my army of spam programs crushes everything). I will try to follow up and let you know if anything turns up.

Can anyone confirm this? Have they received similar emails with the same circumstances? Does anyone think this really could be an employee?