discussion More scam emails

[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&form=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