Is this Email a scam?

lemontree

I have received an E Mail from purchase@mbcontact.com
On line purchase saying we have either entered incorrect billing address, credit card number, expiration date, security code, incorrectly, or used a canceled credit card to place our order.

As I have never ordered anything on line, where has this come from!!!!

They are asking for correct details to be submitted!!!!

Thank you.

kirkeastment

Well if you've not ordered anything, then yes its obviously a scam.

As for where it came from, it came from someone who is trying to get your card detail.

CHR15

A quick Google for [EMAIL="purchase@mbcontact.com"]purchase@mbcontact.com[/EMAIL] shows a whole bunch of scams.

[EMAIL="purchase@mbcontact.com"]purchase@mbcontact.com[/EMAIL] were the ones involved in that Scam selling of Google Earth a short while ago.

Quite what made people think they had to pay for it in the first place was beyond me but hey ho, the World is full of all sorts.

RobertoMoir

lemontree wrote: »

I have received an E Mail from [EMAIL="purchase@mbcontact.com"]purchase@mbcontact.com[/EMAIL]
On line purchase saying we have either entered incorrect billing address, credit card number, expiration date, security code, incorrectly, or used a canceled credit card to place our order.

As I have never ordered anything on line, where has this come from!!!!

They are asking for correct details to be submitted!!!!

Thank you.

If you've never given them, or in your case anyone your details then of course it's a scam. I mean seriously, how hard is it? If a random person walked up to you in the street with this story and asked for your card details you'd know they were ripping you off, right?... RIGHT? This equation doesn't magically change just because a box of electronics somehow gets involved in transporting their story from them to you.

I'm sorry if I seem harsh, but I honestly am shocked that people need to ask this question. I don't know what it is about involving a computer in scams that makes common sense fly out of the window but there are a few simple rules

• You haven't won a lottery you haven't entered. No, Really.
• Bill Gates won't send you money if you forward an email with or without your credit card numbers included.
• If it sounds too good to be true, that would be because it is.
• Don't pay heed to unsolicited email. It's a scam. All of it. Even that one about stocks. Yes even that one that claims to need your money to fund research into combining ponies and unicorns to make a "Ponycorn" and have it in the shops for Christmas.

OnceUponADream

I get emails like this all the time and also the ones with the package needing delivered and I have only 24 hours to make contact with my details or they won't send me my package:eek: ..

They are definitely a scam.

dealer_wins

To OP. If the email was addressed to you personally, and contained full details of the item you have ordered, along with the "incorrect details" then there is a good chance its genuine.

If on the other hand its addressed to Dear customer, with no details of the item whatsoever, then it is definitely a scam with the aim of getting your credit/debit card details along with as many personal details they can, to spend your money and commit ID fraud.

jhp

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/account-company-fraud-c138930.html

lemontree

This was my sisters email and she has been online for only a few months. Of course she would not have given any details but gave this as a warning rather than just a question. She is changing her Email Address.

staffie1

lemontree wrote: »

This was my sisters email and she has been online for only a few months. Of course she would not have given any details but gave this as a warning rather than just a question. She is changing her Email Address.

changing the email address won't make any difference. I guarantee that within a few weeks, similar spam will start coming through on that one too.
It's a disgrace, but as previously stated, just set up the spam filters on the email account, most of it will get filtered into the trash, and the rest, don't open it, certainly don't respond to it, and just hit the delete button.

I honestly get dozens of these emails everyday. Don't worry about it.

CHR15

lemontree wrote: »

She is changing her Email Address.

That's not going to help.

Everyone gets spam emails. She will get the same nonsense in her new email address. There are ways to combat them but it's simply a steep learning curve for her.

NEVER fall for an email request for ANY kind of information, no matter how genuine it looks (Unless of course she HAS bought/booked something online and is already expecting it)


EDIT: Doh! too slow!

ben500

RobertoMoir wrote: »

If you've never given them, or in your case anyone your details then of course it's a scam. I mean seriously, how hard is it? If a random person walked up to you in the street with this story and asked for your card details you'd know they were ripping you off, right?... RIGHT? This equation doesn't magically change just because a box of electronics somehow gets involved in transporting their story from them to you.

I'm sorry if I seem harsh, but I honestly am shocked that people need to ask this question. I don't know what it is about involving a computer in scams that makes common sense fly out of the window but there are a few simple rules

• You haven't won a lottery you haven't entered. No, Really.
• Bill Gates won't send you money if you forward an email with or without your credit card numbers included.
• If it sounds too good to be true, that would be because it is.
• Don't pay heed to unsolicited email. It's a scam. All of it. Even that one about stocks. Yes even that one that claims to need your money to fund research into combining ponies and unicorns to make a "Ponycorn" and have it in the shops for Christmas.

Are you saying the ponycorn isn't real? I'm only asking because I have ordered one on what I thought was a very good deal at $97 per wk for nine years and you get a free bale of hay and certificate of authenticity and pedigree, you also get a box of spare horns as apparently they can sometimes come off during rucking.