BS: beware of this scam

Subject: BS: beware of this scam
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Date: 19 Jul 09 - 10:00 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 10:38 AM

I get this one from time to time in the name of my local server. I always delete it as soon as I receive it.

However, just to make sure I called my server and checked. They wrre aware of the false emails and "are working on it."

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 06:28 PM

Beware of any message whose author doesn't know there's no such word as "datas".

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: Slag
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 11:31 PM

Uh, OK, so which is the scam? The phony maintenance or the lie that "they are working on it"?

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: open mike
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 04:58 PM

i always forward messages that seem to come from the server to their support dept. to mike them aware that someone is abusing their name.

many sites have an address such as [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 08:11 AM

I never give out any personal info in an email (or an unsolicited phone call), I don't care WHO they say they are.

Surely any organisation that issues contracts requires more proof of ID than an email address?? To open a bank account I practically had to give them a blood sample for analysis!

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 10:27 AM

You'd think that they'd HAVE your login and password, wouldn't you? I've migrated several systems from one machine to a newer one and updated software more times than I can count and not only did this sort of information transfer over, but I had made a backup before starting!

I wouldn't deal with any agency that didn't backup periodically -- at least weekly.

Subject: RE:Scam using Mudcat link
From: Amos
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 02:43 PM

A new one worth noting. This email is scamming people all over the internet, but it picked up a site reference somehow:

From:   [e-mail]
Subject: Hello dear,
Date: November 20, 2010 10:21:09 AM PST
To:   undisclosed recipients: ;
Reply-To:   [e-mail]

Hello dear,
Greetings to you,my name is lauren i read about you in this site at mudcat.org and i decide to communicate with you and it will please me if you will be my friend, i wish if you will respond to my mail box at [e-mail], so that i will tell you more about my self, i hope to hear from you,

Lauren.

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: GUEST,^&*
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 02:56 PM

MUDCAT itself gets lots of this sort of thing as spam. Joe and his cloney-minions usually pick them up quickly enough and dump them. A basic rule-of-thumb is "If it sounds more personal than I expect - it IS more personal than I SHOULD expect."! Mangled English is just a bonus...

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 03:02 PM

I get phone calls purporting to be from my bank, or offering me financial advice.
They all get the same answer, even my bank, when it is actually them
'I never discuss financial matters on the phone, good-bye.'

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: Sawzaw
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 03:06 PM

Try listing something on Craigslist and behold the spam/junk/scam email you get.

I put an image of my email address and my cellphone number in my craigslist ads so a human has to read it and enter it by hand.

Otherwise a Bot or Script can read them and add you to a telemarketing list or compose and send you junk email customized to the contents of the ad.

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 05:55 PM

I put an image of my email address and my cellphone number in my ...

An image is a little harder for automated systems to read, but some scammers have been reportedly using automated OCR to extract the text.

Even the "mangled images" that are so disorganized that a person who is color blind may not be able to read them have been broken.

OCR that can read out-of-line multi-colored images is claimed, but a simpler method appraently used during a recent international soccer(?) event to scalp tickets involved "blasting" a copy of the image to a few hundred email addresses with a "enter the numbers to win a big prize" message. If even one person answered within the timeout for the "ticket order" the answer would be automatically entered to buy "more tickets," giving the scammers the ability to buy large blocks of tickets fairly rapidly in violation of limits on order sizes or "automated ordering."

Strong encryption is about the only reasonably safe method of preventing your info being lifted by the criminals, and there are a number of "data vault" or "password vault" systems available for the stuff you keep on your own machine; but of course that's useless if you actually need to make information available to "unknown others."

John

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: Tootler
Date: 21 Nov 10 - 05:17 PM

I get phone calls purporting to be from my bank, or offering me financial advice.
They all get the same answer, even my bank, when it is actually them
'I never discuss financial matters on the phone, good-bye.'

My wife's one is to ask them to put the offer in writing. They usually hang up pretty quickly even if they are who they say they are.

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: EBarnacle
Date: 21 Nov 10 - 09:01 PM

I just got a beaut, purportedly from a friend of mine.

It was a note stating that he and his wife had been mugged in Wales. According to the note, no one, not even the embassy, [I didn't know we had an embassy in Wales.] was willing to help them get home. The note ended with a request to please wire money.

Needless to say, I phoned my friend immediately. He said that all of his son's business associates had also received this one and they were putting in a complaint to their servers.

Subject: RE: BS: beware of this scam
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:06 AM

I have since found out that all of their e-mail is now being diverted to whoever took over their e-dress. They are changing their account and complaining to their provider.