Clarebabes

Had SIX of the buggers today! Do they think I'm stupid?

Anyone know of anyone who's got caught?

BTW, did anyone see Watchdog last week? Had some people who got caught with the Nigerian cheque scam! Gullible or what? But I did feel sorry for them as it did look like the cheques had cleared. How can the banks do this?

suprabeast

well you think the buck should stop with the banks for accepting the cheque... it shouldnt be allowed to clear and then disappear again

Jap2Scrap

I've just had to log into my egg account and I spent ages checking over and over that the links on the email were genuine and that the url's matched the site url's when typing the egg site into the browser address bar.

I hate being paranoid but you can't trust anything nowadays

Clarebabes

Why not just save the url in your favourites and only log in that way? As long as no one invents a virus which changes links, I should always be OK.

Jap2Scrap

Smartarse

Good tip though, thanks

Markus

I've had a couple allegedly from Barclays and Abbey National. Both of which I've ignored as they are a hoax. How do I know? well, I do use both BC and Abbey, but the email addy it was sent to is not the one I registered with them.

I can understand some people falling for this, as they want to protect their bank accounts, but these days it pays to be paranoid.

Clarebabes

I thought everyone did that!

Markus, me too. I am with Barclays, but I am not fooled. The language in them is terrible!

paul-s

I thought that was the whole point of chqs, they didnt allow release of funds until they were clear ? how can that be got around ?

Clarebabes

Obviously these buggers have. I did feel sorry for the guys on Watchdog. It's usually people who can't afford to lose that kind of money that get caught!

4X4BOB

My wife works for a large well known bank and had a woman sending £18k to turkey for a house she had "won" in a competition!

The woman was in her late seventies and had received a telephone call from "very nice man" who told her that she had won a 4bed house in Turkey in a competition, a competition she doesn't remember entering, but she must have done as she had won it, DOH!
She had the option of taking the cash value instead, all she had to do was to pay £18k first to have it registered in her name before she could sell it and pocket all that cash.
My wife spent ages explaining it was a scam, and to take legal advice, and to tell her family, (she was going to suprise them, which she'll do that for sure)
and even telephoned head office to see what they could do. In the end head office said that they legally could not refuse to send the money if that is what the customer wanted to do, but the woman had to sign a disclaimer that she was sending the money against the advice of the bank.
She sent the £18k and left saying "I'll see you in a few weeks with very large cheque in my hand"

How on earth can people be so dumb


Bob

warrenm2

dns poisioning - hosts file entry

Clarebabes

Are you following me?

mynickers

Do they think I'm stupid?

They haven't targeted you directly Claire, worry not! I get hoards for ebay and paypal, cause I have my email listed on my actual auction HTML..

http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/report/75

You can report your attacks on here, and they're putting together databases to try and bring the scammers to justice...