Word Of WARNING

[dazuk1972]

We're all aware of bogus e-mails going around all the time. This is a word of warning that the bogus Pay Pal e-mails are back and I've had loads by the ton. They all come under different e-mail addresses so that when you block them more come through and so that most of the time they don't get filtered into your Junk Mail folder or Bulk folder when you select them as Spam.

I wonder if any of these people ever get caught trying to steal people's credit card and bank details.

Darren.

[Chewy]

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a friend client forwarded me this last friday, it was a scam from 2005 they are trying again

[katzdvd]

I get paypal & ebay emails like that quite frequently, I just delete them all. Most contain something like "your account has been suspended for xyz activity; click here to reactivate your account."

I figure if they need to get in touch with me that bad, they will notify me the next time I try to login & sell something. Bottom line, Never click on an email link; Always go directly to the actual website & login there.

[dazuk1972]

a friend client forwarded me this last friday, it was a scam from 2005 they are trying again

I would have copied and pasted one of the bogus e-mails to show what the crooks say as an example. I also keep getting bogus bank e-mails from people that claim they are working from a bank each and the bank names are companies that I don't bank with. This is how dumb they are. They expect somebody to believe in it and whoever reads one of the e-mails will know it's a trick because they know they don't bank with a certain name that is mentioned. I've also had American bank names and I live in England and that makes them more dumb because they don't even bother to find out what country people live in and they must be more dumb if they think somebody opened a bank account overseas. Well, not everybody does unless they live abroad as well like a celebrity. The chances of them e-mailing a celebrity out of pure luck is so slim.

Darren.

[volfann]

I love the ones from Africa wanting you to help them sneak 16 million bucks out of the country and in return you get a percentage.. I get one of those in email every week.

[hello people]

Lately I've had a series of those ones from people requiring offshore people to help acquire monies from a deceased estate.

There was a case on the news here of a lotto scam email from London which suckered in a couple of Australians to the tune of over a million dollars. The culprit got caught on hidden camera.

[vw56german]

I too have gotten the PayPal emails. The last one I had was made to look like a reciept for a payment that was just made by my account. It contained a link to dispute the charge if I had not authorized it. The link of course was a Phishing site. What got me so steamed was how authentic the email page looked, logos, graphics, even a little code key sequence on the bottom of the page. Very irritating.

[dazuk1972]

I get paypal & ebay emails like that quite frequently, I just delete them all. Most contain something like "your account has been suspended for xyz activity; click here to reactivate your account."

I figure if they need to get in touch with me that bad, they will notify me the next time I try to login & sell something. Bottom line, Never click on an email link; Always go directly to the actual website & login there.

I forgot about the EBay Scams. Not only that, if these people were genuine, they wouldn't send e-mails, they'll send letters. As we all know, when business have something to say out of the blue that's genuine, they never send e-mails, they send letters that we find on our hallway carpets, half hanging through our letterboxes or in our mailboxes that's installed with our homes. Genuine companies only send us an e-mail as a reply if we e-mail them first.

Some people don't know replying to the bogus e-mailers with abuse or anything else to them as in telling them they are cons is one of the other worst things to do. The bogus e-mailers want to find out what e-mail addresses are still in use daily and that can cause more problems for the people getting the e-mails that are stupid enough to reply to them. The bogus e-mailers also want to send out viruses with trick Copied and Pasted web pages in e-mails. I remember a lot of e-mails were on the loose under different Microsoft e-mails addresses. These Microsoft e-mail addresses were either stolen and taken over or other Domain e-mail addresses that looked genuine. The crooks Copied And Pasted security web pages that mentioned about downloading this n' that to protect a PC. Where the icon was to download the security software, it was replaced by a Trojan Horse. The page was genuine by Microsoft at their web site but a bunch of morons tampered with the icon after Copying and Pasting it in the e-mails by exchanging the security software to the Trogan Horse.

A lot of us are already aware of these scams but I mentioned it encase anybody new didn't know. Sometimes I'm still worried about what to do when I get an e-mail under a Microsoft name because for all I know it could be fake under a good fake Domain e-mail address.

Darren.

[dazuk1972]

I love the ones from Africa wanting you to help them sneak 16 million bucks out of the country and in return you get a percentage.. I get one of those in email every week.

Those people sound really dumb to think others would believe in that. Next they'll try and sell a police car to a cop.

Darren.

[dazuk1972]

Lately I've had a series of those ones from people requiring offshore people to help acquire monies from a deceased estate.

There was a case on the news here of a lotto scam email from London which suckered in a couple of Australians to the tune of over a million dollars. The culprit got caught on hidden camera.

I'm in the UK and we've had the same thing visa-versa. People from the UK fell victim from doing the Australian lottery and they were asked to send a payment to claim thier winnings. Some victims sent the money and they were asked to send more. Then it went on as a series when they sent more money and they were asked to send more and more and at the end they won nothing and they never got their payments back. The companies vanished.

NEVER invest money over the internet as I'm sure most of you wouldn't because a lot of those fake companies take a fortune and lie to the public when questions are asked and all of a sudden those web sites are shut down after a while by the owners and they keep mega money and the victims get NOTHING back.

I wonder how a lot of people get away with these scams. Most of all, I wonder how they sleep at night.

Things are supposed to get stronger to fight the crooks but when and how?

Darren.

[dazuk1972]

I too have gotten the PayPal emails. The last one I had was made to look like a reciept for a payment that was just made by my account. It contained a link to dispute the charge if I had not authorized it. The link of course was a Phishing site. What got me so steamed was how authentic the email page looked, logos, graphics, even a little code key sequence on the bottom of the page. Very irritating.

I've had the same type. I know what you mean. Those worm-out-losses go through any pipeline to try and rip us off. I'd love to see their faces in court when they are about to pay the price and the courts don't take Pay Pal payments, neither.

Darren.

[dazuk1972]

Reader's Digest is another rip-off. I remember many years ago when I was a customer of theirs and they always sent me junk mail through my door and a lot of it was competitions. The time when I was unaware of those fruit cakes, I opened an envelope and I read a letter that told me I one a grand prize. With the letter was a list of things and the letter said I won one of them. The listed prizes were things like a washing machine, a dishwasher, a video recorder (and this was before DVD was out), a video camera (and this was before they were called cam corders), a TV set, a computer etc. I was so excited then and I thought I was in for a great one even though I hoped it wasn't a washing machine or a dish washer because I was still living with my parents back then in the early 90s.

Reader Digest told me I had to subcribe to Which magazine at £13.00 to claim my prize. I did. I must add, back then I wasn't aware of the cons then. Time went by and I thought my prize could take at least twenty-eight days to arrive and twenty-eight days was maximum for most thngs back then. I remember getting some mail from Reader's Digest and when I opened it I had three DIY books with ten pages in each. One was for electrics, plumbing and painting and decorating. I thought that was kind of them sending me those at the time. During the time Which magazine was piling up in a cupboard even though I never wanted them and each issue remained wrapped in plastic. As weeks went further, I'd say about three weeks, I phoned Reader's Digest and asked what happened to my prize. They asked me if I got the three DIY books in the mail and I told them I did. They told me those were the prizes. I was shocked. I spent £13.00 on a pile of junk that I never wanted in the first place that took-up space in the cupboard (that I should have binned earlier), and I was looking forward to a prize that was worth a lot of money. Not only was I ripped-off from £13.00 back then (and that was somewhat a lot to me then because I wasn't getting much money each week because of being out of work), I also could have got those three ten-paged books for free from the DIY shop except they would have been under a different name and not Reader's Digest. Reader's Digest burn our bank accounts, too. STAY AWAY from those people because they try their luck, too.

[Derree]

Working in a bank I get calls from people who get emails saying that they need to send thier bank info to someone so a large dep can be made, or they won the lotto in another country..mostly older folks that fall for it...I feel quite bad being the one to break their heart and tell them it just isn't so...that and they get an email claiming to be from us and that thier online banking has expired and they need to click the link to get in and reset it..

[Old Gal]

In all my years of online banking I have only ever had one of those emails. Thank God I read all the bank memos.

Daughter had one saying her online banking will be terminated if she doesnt sign in often enough. Ring me and we will fix it all.

Hell, she is in it every day. We soon worked them out.

[drfsupercenter]

Yay for not having a bank account

But my parents never get those emails, if they did they'd think they were real and ask me what to do