Is this safe to pay?

[colin m]

Perfectly plausible Col' and what a generous offer. You are very fortunate to be yet another celebrity to receive this money.....Don't miss out!.......When you do get your $2,700,000, could you sub me the £5,000 I owe my new friend Gladness Madikwe for his coal?....I'm a bit short of readies just now, and don't want to let him down....

I'll pay you back £1 a week, if that's o.k. with you.

Lend you the money, wait one moment, why don't we put my chap, in touch with your chap and cut us middle men out ? My man is desperate to give his money away, yours is desperate to receive. Well that's the world fixed at 0636.

Colin M........

[Guest]

The constant emails asking me to buy Viagra...... What I always wonder is how they know I need them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

The constant emails asking me to buy Viagra...... What I always wonder is how they know I need them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well , discreetly Aidan (you can trust us ? ), you can tell us your situation. Best not to hold back be frank about the whole thing. You will feel better about it. :P

Laurie

[Guest]

Ok discreetly then. I can no longer rise to the occasion. The little blue pills do not work. I think that viagra would be more effective if it were an ointment! (Think about it!)

Thanks to Laurie. The forum's agony aunt. Yes I do feel better have shared it with you all.....

[Guest]

Obviously where I am going wrong Aidan all my pills are white.

Youch Aidan once an uncle now an aunt. Now not no what to make of it.

Laurie

[Guest]

To be an aunt Laurie all you need to do is get in touch with your feminine side. Perhaps wearing high heels a couple of times a week? I can recommend it! !!!!!!!!!

What size shoe do you wear? When you are modelling and have your feet under the bench, your wife would never know!!!

Post a picture!!! We can give you five stars! !!!!

[Guest]

Young m

To be an aunt Laurie all you need to do is get in touch with your feminine side. Perhaps wearing high heels a couple of times a week? I can recommend it! !!!!!!!!!What size shoe do you wear? When you are modelling and have your feet under the bench, your wife would never know!!!

Post a picture!!! We can give you five stars! !!!!

Young man (used in the very widest term) you Aidan. I do not have a feminine side. But I do like a feminine by my side. Neither do I like high heel shoes on females or for that matter males. But Aidan if that is your game!

Laurie

[Guest]

Thanks for calling me young! I hope my humour has not offended you? This is the problem with sending electronic messages. The spirit and intention of the message is hard to convey. And I refuse to ever put LOL.

[Guest]

No at all good fun Aidan enjoy your presence back on this forum. Like the repartee all good natured and just carry on Nephew !

Any way what are you doing at the moment ?

Laurie

[Guest]

Hi Laurie

Well it's tricky. You may recall that about 100 years ago I started doing the 1/72 Airfix dambusters land? I got it about one third done and then my work life took over. I'm a teacher (well a bit more than that) in a school and it takes up so much time. I got a bit done over this summer hols but not much. I'm having to write new courses for new GCSES which start in September and a new A-level. It takes hundreds of hours and I've spent a lot of the summer doing that.

We go hack on Monday for an eight week half term but I'n determined to do a bit of modelling a couple of times a week. Let's hope!

[stona]

I just got this nice email from the NatWest.

"Dear Customer,

During a recent review of your account we found that you are currently logging in from different cities in a suspicious manner that is not compliant with our bank policies. NatWest customers are not permitted to log in from different places at same time, or using proxies. For your safety, we have temporarily deactivated your account, to reactive your account please go to our SSL secure link below and update your account credentials. However, please note that our squad reserves the right to close your account at any time. As such, we encourage you to become familiar with our program policies and monitor your network accordingly.

[spurious link here]

Kind regardsJayashree C

NatWest Internet Banking Customer Support"



Now, I feel the least I should do is to reactivate my account by filling in all the details as requested......if only I had a NatWest account

Cheers

Steve

[Lee W]

I just got this nice email from the NatWest."Dear Customer,

During a recent review of your account we found that you are currently logging in from different cities in a suspicious manner that is not compliant with our bank policies. NatWest customers are not permitted to log in from different places at same time, or using proxies. For your safety, we have temporarily deactivated your account, to reactive your account please go to our SSL secure link below and update your account credentials. However, please note that our squad reserves the right to close your account at any time. As such, we encourage you to become familiar with our program policies and monitor your network accordingly.

[spurious link here]

Kind regardsJayashree C

NatWest Internet Banking Customer Support"



Now, I feel the least I should do is to reactivate my account by filling in all the details as requested......if only I had a NatWest account

Cheers

Steve

Your not the only one Steve, I had an email from Nat West saying an unauthorised login attempt failed, press 'continue' to log back in...what Nat West account!!!???

Lee

[stona]

It's just so badly done. It refers to National Westminster as NatWest. It says a customer is not permitted to log in from different places at different times and refers to proxy servers simply as proxies. It asks you to note that 'our squad' can close your account at any time. 'Our squad', what bank would use that phrase? You'd think these shysters could at least employ someone to write a convincing business letter.There's more, but to anyone with half a brain it just looks like a load of BS, quite apart from the fact that your bank would never contact you in this way.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Just love all these spoofy things which arrive.

But have great fun when someone who is genuine (are they ?)arrives on the phone for some reason or another from a bank..

I ask them if they are genuine, can I trust them, can they give me my trusted password, mother's maiden name etc so that I can validate their phone call. How do I know who you are. There is in most cases a very strict silence. They just do not know how to react. This in itself shows how easy it is to gain a persons confidence as they have not been challenged previously.

Maddening is the use of people employed from foreign places who I cannot understand. Nothing against people from any where in the world being employed but to have to ask five or six times to repeat things is nuts.

Laurie

[stona]

Laurie, foreign call centres are inevitable. I have spoken to a nice lady in the Philipines about a technical issue recently, at least she didn't pretend to be somewhere else and was actually very helpful.

I have also worked in India, in Bangalore, which is almost an IT training centre for the sub-continent. Lots of smart,well educated, English speaking and computer literate young people to be found there. I worked with them for a month. Without going into detail that sort of person earns little more in a month than a similarly qualified person would earn in two, maybe three days here. That's why call centres are moving to India. I don't really have a problem with this. It's an area where we can't compete. We need to be looking at and educating our young people to work in areas where we can compete...but that's another question altogether.

Cheers

Steve