Stupidly obvious fake emails
Discussion
I just won the Australian Lottery ($4m). Apparently it doesn't matter that I don't remember buying a ticket as my name is a match for the winner they'er trying to trace, and the funds simply MUST be claimed by December. The 'properties' of the sender include a yahoo mailbox, it's so reassuring to see the Oz politicians saving money by using an internet based e-mail account.
If anyone feels the urge to make a statutory declaration then see my profile. I'll forward the e-mail to you but only if you promise to invest half of your winnings together with the legacy I'm about to share in from the late and much lamented King Embezelwi. I have this foolproof idea for an e-mail scam...
If anyone feels the urge to make a statutory declaration then see my profile. I'll forward the e-mail to you but only if you promise to invest half of your winnings together with the legacy I'm about to share in from the late and much lamented King Embezelwi. I have this foolproof idea for an e-mail scam...
Some of these paypal scammers are getting quite "up on it",the real paypal will tell you that they will ony start your address with your name before your addy,yet recently ive had this format sent to me alerting me of my credit card expiry date,,when i looked at my card it doesnt expire for a long while yet so i reported the email to spoof@paypal.com but got no reply.
I am starting to wonder who is the legitimate 'Paypal',very soon i can see me reporting the legitimate one to the Spoof one.
I am starting to wonder who is the legitimate 'Paypal',very soon i can see me reporting the legitimate one to the Spoof one.
ZR1cliff said:
yet recently ive had this format sent to me alerting me of my credit card expiry date,,when i looked at my card it doesnt expire for a long while yet so i reported the email to spoof@paypal.com but got no reply.
I've forwarded emails to the ebay spoof address and always got replies telling me they aren't legit, but never hada reply from paypal so I don't bother anymore. Why should I tell them if they can't be bothered to reply to me?
m1spw said:
yet recently ive had this format sent to me alerting me of my credit card expiry date,,when i looked at my card it doesnt expire for a long while yet so i reported the email to spoof@paypal.com but got no reply.
I've forwarded emails to the ebay spoof address and always got replies telling me they aren't legit, but never hada reply from paypal so I don't bother anymore. Why should I tell them if they can't be bothered to reply to me?
Well its a never ending chain and unless you notify them of a few then there is no lead for them,ile probably report 1 in 5 from now on.
I like to chat to them via my spoof email address:
LOOK IF YOU ARE GOING TO SEND THIS SCAMMING S
T AT LEAST SPELL IT RIGHT AND TRY AND FORMAT THE PAGE CORRECTLY AS IT MAKES IT SO FG HARD TO READ (A BIT LIKE THIS UPPERCASE CP).
ANYHOW ANY EMAIL THAT STARTS 'FROM THE DESK OF..' IS ALWAYS A SCAM
GET IT RIGHT AND TRY AGAIN OK
Last one I sent was:
fg hell how many more are going to die in this plane crash
No reply yet
LOOK IF YOU ARE GOING TO SEND THIS SCAMMING S
T AT LEAST SPELL IT RIGHT AND TRY AND FORMAT THE PAGE CORRECTLY AS IT MAKES IT SO FG HARD TO READ (A BIT LIKE THIS UPPERCASE CP). ANYHOW ANY EMAIL THAT STARTS 'FROM THE DESK OF..' IS ALWAYS A SCAM
GET IT RIGHT AND TRY AGAIN OK
Last one I sent was:
f
g hell how many more are going to die in this plane crash No reply yet
I never believe any of them anyway. I always go directly to the web site in question. But I do know someone who was taken in by the $5 million scam requiring money to be released scam. Infact he was seriously considering meeting the 'gentlemen' at some airport or another. 
I cannot understand anyone who is taken in by this stuff. You have won..
never entered anything... but hey it must be me.
I cannot understand anyone who is taken in by this stuff. You have won..
never entered anything... but hey it must be me.m1spw said:
yet recently ive had this format sent to me alerting me of my credit card expiry date,,when i looked at my card it doesnt expire for a long while yet so i reported the email to spoof@paypal.com but got no reply.
I've forwarded emails to the ebay spoof address and always got replies telling me they aren't legit, but never hada reply from paypal so I don't bother anymore. Why should I tell them if they can't be bothered to reply to me?
They may not reply but they do get acted on. I know quite a few people at the ebay and paypal phishing depts (which i think have been combined now) and they do send out emails to isps tracking down the phishing sites.
If you don't send the emails then the sites stay up longer, so i would encourage you to carry on reporting them
S2rr Kitty said:
I've had those too, and I've also been getting a stack of mails recently telling me someone has added another bank account to my Pay Pal account, and also that there have been password changes.
Ctrl + Alt + Del
Errr...I think you mean Ctrl + A + Del, as what you put would restart your PC or bring up windows manager.......
rico said:
The thing is... there MUST be people falling for these scams and sending their bank account details.
I wouldn't be surprised if a few Nigerians were very wealthy due to these scams...
Well they probably send out a few million of them at a time, I reckon your chances of someone falling for it are pretty good, plenty of people who aren't very tech savvy or haven't had much experience of the internet would be the most vunerable.
ZR1cliff said:
Am i right in presuming that you dont even have to part with your details but just 'log-in' to a spoof then once they have your password they can extract the details from the site or make a payment to an account they have control of?
you need to enter the details to be compromised. generally.
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