After years of warning people about the dangers of responding to unsolicited e-mail offers

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The geniuses at Target Corp pull this stunt.

Naturally, given the recent news about Target's credit card security woes — and the fact that the "free credit monitoring" messages were sent with return addresses outside the target.com domain and were sent even to customers who hadn't shopped at Target during the period in which the security breach occurred — many recipients were suspicious of those messages and believed they might be part of the same (or another) scheme to compromise credit card numbers. However, although Target perhaps could have found a better way of notifying customers about their offer, company representatives have confirmed that the free credit monitoring messages are legitimate and were indeed sent by Target.

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