What the Spammers Are Up To Now
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Comment from: tbelshaw [Member]
I've had a few of those Jak LOL.
A word of advice for everyone.
The latest pain in the butt, is recieving emails that you have apparantly sent to yourself but when opended they are usually ads for viagra etc.
This is called spoofing, once they get hold of your email address they start using it to send mails that have apparantly been sent from your own email account. There is no virus or spyware involved in this, so just delete them if you get any.
The other thing you can do is put your own email address in your blocked senders list. This will bounce them back to the orignal sender and will hopefully stop them sending. It won't affect your other legitimate email.
A word of advice for everyone.
The latest pain in the butt, is recieving emails that you have apparantly sent to yourself but when opended they are usually ads for viagra etc.
This is called spoofing, once they get hold of your email address they start using it to send mails that have apparantly been sent from your own email account. There is no virus or spyware involved in this, so just delete them if you get any.
The other thing you can do is put your own email address in your blocked senders list. This will bounce them back to the orignal sender and will hopefully stop them sending. It won't affect your other legitimate email.
Comment from: davidr [Member] · http://www.freewebs.com/dwrob/
This looks like a variation on the old Nigerian Development Minister email.
In that one, they want to launder $125 million through you bank account, but to do so they need your account number and your pin code so they can access it. You never see the money and you never see the money they clean out of your account again.
It plays on greed and surprisingly (or maybe not) some people do get caught by it. A woman in Cheshire lost £30,000 on it by giving them the information they wanted. Idiot.
I always operate on the principle that there’s no such thing as a free lunch and if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
In that one, they want to launder $125 million through you bank account, but to do so they need your account number and your pin code so they can access it. You never see the money and you never see the money they clean out of your account again.
It plays on greed and surprisingly (or maybe not) some people do get caught by it. A woman in Cheshire lost £30,000 on it by giving them the information they wanted. Idiot.
I always operate on the principle that there’s no such thing as a free lunch and if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Comment from: linda d [Member]
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Makes a change from the Nigerian diplomats!
Hi Jak Yes I have had spammers like that. In fact opened up today to find some guys
in Iraq had stolen some money in a raid have it ready in Lebanon and offered 40% of the takings if I would help! Well I never did?
in Iraq had stolen some money in a raid have it ready in Lebanon and offered 40% of the takings if I would help! Well I never did?
We get these emails here too. I always check my emails first on webmail so I can delete anything potentially dodgy before downloading to my computer.