Heads Up: Latest Scam

Reply #12

mr twentyone — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:38:56 GMT

ha ha ha ,, i got one of these i replied alright,, told them to have a nice life,,, i have never missed what i never had ha ha ha

Reply #11

mswiz777 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:03:50 GMT

I agree with you but I went along with one of them just to see how for they would go. I gave them all the wrong info the person on the other end was up set very upset. They said they were going to tell the FBI about me and I told them what end to kiss.

Reply #10

Coin Toss — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:26:57 GMT

I know that Pay Pal, for example, has it set up so that if you get a phishing attempt that looks like PayPal, you forward it to them @

spoof@paypal.com

and you'll get a verification e-mail that it was indeed a phishing attempt, thank you for contacting them, and they'll try and track down the source and shut it down.

Reply #9

justxploring — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:41:33 GMT

The scary ones are those that look exactly like emails and letters that come from the banks or credit card companies. I warn everyone I know who uses the internet never to reply to an email with a link, even if it might be legitimate. It only takes a few seconds to manually type a URL or access your favorites folder. Some of the phishing emails even have toll free customer service numbers. If my account looks okay, then I don't pay any attention to them. Still, I would only use the telephon... [ More ]

Reply #8

LAVERNE MALONEY — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:29:41 GMT

Coin Toss, thanks for the heads up

Reply #7

time*treat — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:28:29 GMT

Too bad the headers can be faked, plus these guys usually operate in countries where the officials couldn't care less if someone is ripping off greedy westerners , especially if the proceeds are going to be spent in the local economy.

Reply #6

tntea — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:56:39 GMT

I write back to some of these and say, I had turned the email over to be investigated and now I am told the situation will be dealt with before end of week using the ISP number to which the email was sent, they can trace the computer and location.

Hopefully this causes these scammers to up and move... lol

Reply #5

TheGameGrl — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:38:54 GMT

msn and yahoo are not going to care. They are a public email server, open to anything that slivers on this green earth. AOL is another account that isnt worried about saving face when scams are abound.

I actually read these scams for sheer lack of intelligence in which they were composed. Sometimes there is actual humor in these scam letters. Why let something go to waste that is a real belly roll.

Reply #4

Badger — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:08:18 GMT

I guess I'm not hip enough...but isn't GB part of the European Commonwealth, and don't they use Euros now? No more pounds?

Can't these people get into real trouble using MSN and YAHOO!'s name like that? I would try and notify MSN and Yahoo! of this......there must be some way to contact them. I'm sure they would be VERY interested in reading this....

Odd that old Florina doesn't have a YAHOO! email address. NOT

Reply #3

hearsetrax — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:09:55 GMT

Reply #2

Stack47 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:55:55 GMT

Have you seen the Commercial where a guy sits down next to a woman on a bus and gives her the same type of spiel?

The guy is dressed like a bum and I believe he shows her a crimpled check from a foreign bank and asks to use her account to cash it. The idea is that if these scams were presented in person, people wouldn't even blink an eye and walk away.

Both Yahoo and MSM ask for name and address when getting an email address so that alone should be enough to know they are not part of rando... [ More ]

Reply #1

time*treat — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:17:23 GMT

I get these on occasion. I read the subject line and hit 'delete' without even opening them, anymore.

Heads Up: Latest Scam

Coin Toss — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:01:33 GMT

Have received a few of these lately:

Yahoo/Msn Lottery

Incorporation

Baley House, Har Road

Sutton, Greater&London SM1 4te United Kingdom.

This is to inform you that you have won a&prize money of Five

hundred thousand, Great Britain Pound&Sterlings( 500,000.00)

for this month 2007 Lottery promotion which is&organized by

YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC WINDOWS LIVE.

YAHOO/MSN &MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email

addresses of the people that are&active online, among the millions

tha... [ More ]