More scam emails

[takeslousyphotos]

I just had one proportion to be a receipt for $63.28 ....... If you did not authorise this transaction....... click on this link etc etc....... blah blah ........ etc etc.

[Neil]

Not forgetting the good old swipes of your card. Someone recently tried it with a credit card - £700 in total but the card called me to check first. As I had been on a course all day it couldn't have been me. I'm not sure it had been taken recently as the card is only used for certain bigger items but when I first had it I used it a couple of times for diesel (about 2 months ago), so the bugger probably swiped and then sold details on.


Lucky the card company were on top of it.

[ojays]

Just thought I'd mention that I've recently received a very professional looking email purporting to come from 'Paypal Service Security'.
There are no typos or awkward grammar (apart from maybe the title, Paypal Service Security is a bit clunky) and the whole thing is very convincing, even to a sceptic like me. It was so convincing that I actually checked my genuine Paypal account to make sure it is okay, which it is.


I wasn't daft enough to click on anything in the body of the email, accessing my account by other means, but somebody else could easily fall for this one.


Cheers


Steve

Hell of a coincidence you put this on, as I got a 'Genuine' e-mail from Pay-Pal today, saying that there was unusual activity regarding my 'PP' account.


Point of origin being Beijing China, so my account was frozen until I contacted.


I went into my 'PP' account my usual way and it was informed my 'log in/password' details had been compromised.


Luckily nothing had gone out of the account, but I had to change all my security details.


Seems 'PP' do monitor our activity, so happy about that.


Gregg

[rickoshea52]

Read this


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3214925/The-joker-conned-email-conmen-tempted-send-cheeky-reply-absurd-scam-emails-One-man-did-laugh-loud-results.html#article-3214925

[Guest]

I had an "alert" from "Amazon.com" that my account had been compromised, and I should change my password, etc., etc.


Unfortunately for them, immediately behind was a notification, about new books, from Amazon.co.uk., with not a word of warning when I investigated.

[yak face]

Read this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3214925/The-joker-conned-email-conmen-tempted-send-cheeky-reply-absurd-scam-emails-One-man-did-laugh-loud-results.html#article-3214925

Brilliant rick , ive just been crying laughing looking at this , the one where he gets the scammer to call everything by code ( the gummy bear , cola bottle one) is priceless!! Cheers tony

[Guest]

I think it's always safest to assume the worse with emails and NEVER use click-throughs. It doesn't take long to check your account through normal internet navigation and will give you piece of mind. I do feel for the people that fall foul of these schemes though and hope the people behind the scams get what is coming to them ie. a lengthy jail sentence.
Paul

Exactly what I do Paul. Banks do not email you.


Another one recently. Phone. You have a Microsoft system and we believe you probably can enhance.................


So I thought I would have fun. So asked if he had a pencil and paper. Yes. Then take this down. OK.


Today's pudding recipe. Would you like a Rubarb or perhaps an apple recipe. Deathly silence then


click. Since then it has been a fortnight clear which is great news as they were daily.


Laurie

[Gern]

I got another mail today recommending this site:


http://www.bing.com/search?q=searchingprofits&go=Submit+Query&qs=ds&fo rm=QBLH


According to the email, the sender was my sister - but she absolutely did not send this mail. Would you check it with your sister before applying - or just assume she's trying to help?

[Guest]

very funny some of these, i love hitting the conman back, on a serious note however and one to look out for, my father had a txt from his bank purporting the need to speak to him re some unusual spending on his barclay card and asked him to dial the barclay fraud office, he checked the number for the fraud office on his statement and it was the same as the number on the txt so he dialled it on his mobile and went through the security procedure, unknown to him the txt contained a bug and when he dialed it it re routed the number to a scam, cost him £3000, luckily he got it back but had to get a new phone as well, they are getting more and more ingenious