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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted February 09, 2015 05:47 AM

Watch out for an email allegedly from PayPal to say that you had sent a payment for a subscription to Skype. It further says that it you did not send such a payment you can open a query by clicking on a paragraph in the email.
DO NOT CLICK.
It is a scam.
I first checked on the correct PayPal site but there was no payment itemised from my account. A further investigation through Google reveals that this scam has been going on for years.

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Andrew Woodcock
Film God

Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012

posted February 09, 2015 05:56 AM

Thanks for advising and notifying us all Maurice, very helpful Sir!

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"C'mon Baggy..Get with the beat"

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted February 09, 2015 09:27 AM

Yeah,

You have to watch it these days. I got an e-mail "from my bank" this morning telling me my account had been suspended and unless I logged in immediately they would lock it up.

Considerate folks: they even provided a link to my logon.

-but when I hovered over it, it wasn't my bank's website at all, although I bet it would have looked just like it if I had actually clicked on it.

You could easily imagine somebody being deceived by this: it looked exactly like an e-mail my bank would have sent.

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Andrew Woodcock
Film God

Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012

posted February 09, 2015 09:42 AM

I've had it myself with the old Bank scam Steve, just a few years back.
I just simply notified my bank the minute I saw and suspected it giving them the http from the bogus e mail.

You really do have to have your wits about you nowadays with these scamming scumbags.

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Martin Jones
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1269
From: Thetford , Norfolk,England
Registered: May 2008

posted February 09, 2015 09:48 AM

Don't know about US banks, Steve, but none of my UK banks will EVER ask you to do ANYTHING to do with your Accounts in an email, or by phone.
Everything remotely like a transaction or enquiry affecting security HAS to be instigated by the Account Holder.

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Ongoing interest in Telecine....

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted February 09, 2015 10:03 AM

Standard Operating Procedure for my bank, and many, many institutions is they will not request a login by e-mail, and they say that often.

-the problem is if they send out 10,000 of these e-mails and less than 1% take the bait their nets will come up full! (You thought you were going to pay your mortgage with that money, but you wind up buying caviar and champagne for some hacker 7 time zones away!)

I'm not at all sure these people really know I am a customer at this bank: we get similar e-mails from banks we've never used fairly often.

-they cast a broad net, maybe they'll bring in a few good sized "phish"!

I've stopped worrying about money a long time ago: a couple of times a week I win some overseas lottery or other, and some deposed third world monarch keeps offering me 50% if I'll just help him smuggle his millions out. I'm just waiting for a billion dollar exile before I take them up on it!

-made in the shade!

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted February 09, 2015 01:43 PM

Here's one I got a couple of days ago:

quote:
Subject:
Date: 02/06/15 03:44:52 PM
From: "A--------n" A---------n@XXXXXXX.com.hk>

look for who beneficiary of this funds

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Now just hold on there!

I get the idea you'd like to steal my life's savings and maybe leave us living in a crate under a highway overpass after we retire, but at least have the decency to make a little effort!

How about a coherent sentence? Some proper capitalization and punctuation might be nice! At least tell a plausible and heartfelt story, even if it's a bald faced lie!

What's society coming to when even the crooks become lazy?

(Keep to a standard, man: make your parents proud!) [Big Grin]

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted February 09, 2015 03:10 PM

Very good Steve [Big Grin]

Yep and the only thing I get free, will be the "cold or flu" [Smile]

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Radulescu Florin
Junior
Posts: 1
From: Slobozia, Romania
Registered: Feb 2015

posted February 25, 2015 09:52 AM

I can smell something fishy on the internet quite easily, especially when it's about money. But thanks for pointing it out. Cheers !

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted February 25, 2015 12:55 PM

Many thanks for that heads up! OSI

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David Ollerearnshaw
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1373
From: Penistone Sheffield UK
Registered: Oct 2012

posted February 25, 2015 12:59 PM

I wonder if they have the FBI in Russia. Email a couple of weeks ago said they 'found' an old account where I had been left $10.000.000 to verify me please send your bank details so we can pay you.

I suppose I should be highly educated with all the degrees I get offered, have 20 wifes mainly from russia all loving me the biggest c**k in the world that never tired out, and $ millions from Nigeria. from Mr Umbong Wonga. Plus many more.

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Bill Shenette
Film Handler

Posts: 85
From: Shrewsbury, MA, USA
Registered: Nov 2014

posted March 10, 2015 10:32 AM

I send all mine to the below address
spoof@paypal.com

pay pal receives these directly and it helps them track those types in which you speak of here in this topic.
Soncerely william

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