'scam' email

oldhand

Total waste of time clicking on the links anyway,the girls are not nearly as young as they seem mostly in late 40s,or at least thats what I heard having no knowledge of them myself of course..:(

Ebe_Scrooge

oldhand wrote: »

Total waste of time clicking on the links anyway,the girls are not nearly as young as they seem mostly in late 40s,or at least thats what I heard having no knowledge of them myself of course..:(

Couldn't agree more. The girl I contacted insisted on calling me "Mr. Dudley", and more worryingly she stood up whilst going for a "number 1" .......

Pound

no1catman wrote: »

Had an email flagged up as potential scam.

Welcome to the Internet

Prinzessilein

I get e-mails which promise to extend parts of the body that I do not have!!!!...How does this work?...

Then there are the SKYPE contact requests - which always come from admirals and drs! - telling me how much they love my photo.....which is worrying as I don't have photos of me online....do these admirals and doctors have access to my camera/photo album?????

I am constantly being offered prescription medication at rock-bottom prices.....ummmmm even cheaper than getting them for free on prescription????....and at least if I go to my chemist I KNOW what I am getting!...What sort of idiot swallows pills that come through the letter box in an unmarked brown envelope?????

And I have lost count of the number of accounts that have been suspended...bank accounts with banks I have never banked with....Apple accounts when I have never had business with them....

The ingenuity of the scammers never ceases to amaze me....but never enough that I actually click to open their oh-so-tempting offers!

peter_the_piper

Just had 1 today allegedly from Amazon saying someone has ordered a telly from my account. The fact they said Dear Customer and not Dear Mr Peter-the-piper and had an open link to click was enough to get me to delete it. Very real looking so could catch someone unawares.

(ps I did go online to check though)

Edwood_Woodwood

What a bizarre thread.

Hoof_Hearted

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Just had 1 today allegedly from Amazon saying someone has ordered a telly from my account. The fact they said Dear Customer and not Dear Mr Peter-the-piper and had an open link to click was enough to get me to delete it. Very real looking so could catch someone unawares.

(ps I did go online to check though)

There's something about this on the latest MSE newsletter.

robatwork

I've spent years trying to get the 4 billion pounds I am now owed from various Nigerians. I won't give up now, I sense I only need send a few thousand more and the riches will be mine.

anne25

I right click to purge spam but seem to be getting loads more emails of a sexual nature since Christmas. Is there any way of preventing it arriving in the first place?

fleshandbone

anne25 wrote: »

I right click to purge spam but seem to be getting loads more emails of a sexual nature since Christmas. Is there any way of preventing it arriving in the first place?

Yes, stop joining adult sites.