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If the .ru email wasn't a give away I might have sent them my account info.











Wait! The fact that I don't have a PayPal account was the first give away.:rolleyes:

Who else has gotten this poor sister to 419?

Who else has gotten this poor sister to 419?
Loads of times. Though at least the people trying trick me know how to fake the 'from:' header. *sigh*

What's ".ru"?

I've gotten it a couple of times. I know they're fake so I just throw them away. It's more common to get the Ebay variety. I must have reported a dozen of those to the Ebay staff.

Should've sent them some false info just to waste their afternoon..

I've only gotten a few scam letters.. most were pretty obvious, not even close to well-worded.

What's ".ru"?
Russia, home of dumb scammers who don't know how to fake the 'from:' header.

419?

419?

Ooh.. quite the coincidence. ;)

Should've sent them some false info just to waste their afternoon..

I've only gotten a few scam letters.. most were pretty obvious, not even close to well-worded.

I've only gotten one actual paper scam letter, with the message that I've just won a crapload of cash, which I'll get if I just fax my bank account information on the enclosed Secruity (sic!) form.

I was getting emails from a US bank for a while asking me to click the link and update my account details.

Shame I don't have a US bank account.

Russia, home of dumb scammers who don't know how to fake the 'from:' header.

Nuffin much changed since Lenin, then... :p

419?
419 fraud is named after the section of the Nigerian criminal code that it violates.

What's ".ru"?russia, I'd guess

Iget those pretty regularly.

I recently got this one, fairly well done, if they hadn't used my screen name instead of my real one, it would have made me scratch my head for a minute before looking at the header info.:

Dear **********,

Thank you for requesting a reminder of your Verizon user ID,
which is printed below. To protect the privacy of your
account we have not provided your password in this e-mail.

User ID: ************

Sign in at: http://www.get-now.biz/?MyAccount=62FSMYGj3PgcauawHwLv0
any time with your user ID and password, and you can:
- view and pay your bill,
- order new products and services,
- request phone service repair, and more.

To see a list of user ID(s) that have online access to view
and manage your registered account(s), sign in at:
http://www.get-now.biz/?UserID_Signin=IODq0OI7SSWHKopsaosVr
and visit the Manage User IDs section of the My Account page.
You can also remove any user IDs that you no longer use.

Please do not reply to this email. If you have questions
or need assistance, please contact us at:
http://www.get-now.biz/?CustomerSupport=ULn2tr7qXeomnj3NGycGg

Thank you for choosing Verizon.
We appreciate your business.

Patrick M. Flaherty
Designated Agent for DMCA Notices
Verizon Corporate Services Corp.
1515 North Courthouse Road, Suite 500
Arlington, Virginia 22201

I keep getting one from Citi bank, telling me my account is overdrawn, except they seem to think I opened the account with the name Smunkee <my maiden name> and the email address that sent it is something like "bobbyjan@yahoo.com" or something, it's got something to do with the Brady Bunch....

anyway.......

I keep getting emails from random people with weird subject lines like "freedom hampster" and then when you open it, it's got like 30 attachments of peices of a note......

that one's weird, I get like 3 a week of it, all from different people, all with different attachments, all with weird subjects

(no I don't download the attachments, I have that idiotic "preview" thing on my mail, and yes I have scanned and I am virus and spyware free)

*snippy*

I got that one today, too. The fact that I'd never even heard of "Verizon" made me just throw it away.

419 fraud is named after the section of the Nigerian criminal code that it violates.

Thanks.

This is the second time I've gotten this.



If the .ru email wasn't a give away I might have sent them my account info.




I havent gotten that one, but we did get a similar scam as if it were from our cable company.

It demended an update of personal account info or service would be interrupted.

We reported it to the cable co as well as the local police when the cable co said they had no such practice.

I cant even inagine how many people may have been tricked and provided all info.

Oh, yes. All the time. I've been getting a lot of stock "tips" lately, too. I just thrown them all away.

Russia, home of dumb scammers who don't know how to fake the 'from:' header.

Ah, thanks. I'm just imagining this guy in a wooden shack in Siberia typing this sort of thing up and laughing to himself.

Nuffin much changed since Lenin, then... :p
Lenin: We shall fund the revolution by spam, Comrades!

419?

Ohhhh... you should be aware of the infamous 419 scam (aka Nigerian scam or advanced fee fraud). Surely you've recieved spam from someone (usually in Africa) who's offering to share a huge sum if you'll just help them out w/ a little money. It's notoriously associated w/ Nigeria, from whence the 419 comes from (the Nigerian statute covering fraud).


http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/nigeralrt.htm
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/

There are even several websites devoted to scaming the scammers - like http://www.419eater.com/

And yes, ".ru" is Russia.

I keep getting emails from random people with weird subject lines like "freedom hampster" and then when you open it, it's got like 30 attachments of peices of a note......
Don't blame me for that. It's not one of mine!

I've only gotten one actual paper scam letter, with the message that I've just won a crapload of cash, which I'll get if I just fax my bank account information on the enclosed Secruity (sic!) form.

First time I came across the 419 was about 11 years ago when a student brought a letter in, and asked for help with the English (I teach ESL over here).

The standard advanced fee never really caught on in Japan, until the scammers cracked the social code - don't appeal to greed, appeal to familial ties - thus the "It's Me" scam (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/archive/news/2005/06/20050608p2g00m0fe014000c.html).

First time I came across the 419 was about 11 years ago when a student brought a letter in, and asked for help with the English (I teach ESL over here).

The standard advanced fee never really caught on in Japan, until the scammers cracked the social code - don't appeal to greed, appeal to familial ties - thus the "It's Me" scam (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/archive/news/2005/06/20050608p2g00m0fe014000c.html).
Of course, that sort of scam has been round for years, even before internet.
People would look up voting registry records for single women living alone with old fashioned names (like Edith for eg) and call them, telling them they're their nephew/neice/grandchild and desperately need some cash quick to help them out of a tight spot.
The confused old biddy would then wire them some money.

I read a few years ago about a young woman in her twenties with an old-fashioned name in the UK got called a few times with people pretending to be her grandchild and asking for cash.

Out of interest, here's a recent BBC article about Nigerias attempts to crack down on 419 scams:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5245742.stm

1x or more a month - BUTTHOLES PHISHING

:sniper:

:upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours:

I was getting emails from a US bank for a while asking me to click the link and update my account details.

Shame I don't have a US bank account.
I got one from a UK bank, in which I had an account. But that's way too obvious. Now I get about 5 of those every single day. I haven't actually read any of them.

Welcome to the 21st century.

Get these scams "from" Ebay and paypal. I have an account with neither.

The 419/Nigerian scam is one with which I am all too familiar (no, I've never been a victim, but I see it in a lot of forms.) Usually, what it does is it pretends to be from someone close to a rich, somewhat famous person, often a world leader, and it promises you a bunch of money (always a convenient round number, too, and always written in all numbers, so it reads "$12,000,000" rather than "$12 million) for sending in something like your bank account information. Then what they do is clean out your account and, predictably, you never see that money you are promised. It's been attached to folks who work with Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and others who are either recently dead or out of power. Check out www.snopes.com for more information on the Nigerian scam; I think it's under "Inboxer Rebellion."

I get all of those quite frequently. I've had my email address since 1996, so it's been long enough for it to make it's way around.

The 419/Nigerian scam is one with which I am all too familiar (no, I've never been a victim, but I see it in a lot of forms.) Usually, what it does is it pretends to be from someone close to a rich, somewhat famous person, often a world leader, and it promises you a bunch of money (always a convenient round number, too, and always written in all numbers, so it reads "$12,000,000" rather than "$12 million) for sending in something like your bank account information. Then what they do is clean out your account and, predictably, you never see that money you are promised. It's been attached to folks who work with Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and others who are either recently dead or out of power. Check out www.snopes.com for more information on the Nigerian scam; I think it's under "Inboxer Rebellion."

i got these in fax form all the time.

I like the "You (white American of German ancestry, btw) are a distant relative of an oil/gold/money magnate. We need to send you $15.000.000, but we need $5.000 for the bank."

1. how the hell am i related to someone in Africa?
2. why would you fax me such vital news?
3. why the hell are you putting periods in my money?
4. why do you need money to take money?

I understood it was fake at age 9. pfft.

I loe emails where the link to sign in starts with an IP. Why not just say, "can i have your account info?"


does anyone know the site where they string scammers along? ooh, i love that site. especially the mall counselor and the man who strung a scammer along, revealing how he killed his wife and how he's bi-curious. hilarious what people will go through for a few grand.

I get them all the time in my OSU account; these idiots think they can fool me when a quick glance at the URL provided in the links is enough to reveal the entire scam (to say nothing of the fact that I have no account on Ebay, Paypal, Chase or BoA)

Not to mention those companies will never ask you for any kind of information or verification of your account number, PIN, credit card number or anything else...you have to either have a serious lapse in judgement or be a total dipshit to be fooled by these clowns.

I've gotten this scam, the kind Smunkee speaks of, and hoardes of others. Question is: how many people are Typhoid Marys? That is, how many actually fall for these scams?

The best one I got was a letter - yes, snail mail! - from some outfit in Spain telling me I'd won 600,000 Euros, part of a prize in the Spanish State Lottery. They enclosed a form for me to fill out with bank information so they could wire me the money. All they wanted was 10%. I searched for the name of the company and ended up at the Spanish State Lottery site where they had a warning aginst these guys specifically. I should have sent them a letter back saying there was no need to wire the money, a cashier's check is fine. After all, they had my name and address.

does anyone know the site where they string scammers along? ooh, i love that site. especially the mall counselor and the man who strung a scammer along, revealing how he killed his wife and how he's bi-curious. hilarious what people will go through for a few grand.

Do you by any chance mean this one? ;)

There are even several websites devoted to scaming the scammers - like http://www.419eater.com/

427 billion times. One time i actually got the IP of the site, tracked it to a small hosting company on the East Coast and started emailing them to let them know a phishing scam was being run from one of their servers. They told me I better have proof.

What's ".ru"?


Its from Russia with a .ru

kinda like a .uk or .cz


I've got a bunch of 'em.