Weird E-mail

[BrianW]

I don't get the loan emails but I do get the "size" emails. Some might find it annoying, but at my age I am just happy some one still cares!

 

[riptides]

I keep getting emails, phone calls, snail mail messages that say "if you don't make the last three month's payments by tomorrow night we will repossess everything you own! What could this mean?

It means take the loan and send me the money.

-Mike Z.

 

[Wil]

Forward Spam or "Phishing" email to SPAM@UCE.GOV

The FTC is trying to clean up the net.

FTC Unveils New E-mail Address for Deceptive Spam: Spam@uce.gov

 

[DieselPower]

Feel lucky that's all you get. About 2 months ago I got a package delivered to my house via FedEx. It contained $24,000 worth of fake tellers checks from a bank in Canada. The letter that came with the checks said to cash them, keep $4,000 of the money for myself and forward the rest to a address in England. I called the FBI and ended up forwarding the whole package to them. About 2 day's later someone called me on the phone and asked if I had forwarded them their money. By the time I said the last letter of FBI they hung up.

 

[chili]

My wife got a call from one of them computer generated messages asking for me and when she said something a real operator came on. She gave the phone to me and they ask me my name and wanted me to give them my last four digits of my ssn to verify who i was. I ask her who they were and she said calvary. I said calvary who and the girl said this was personal business. I told her i was not giving out my ssn and she hung up. I think we are going to see alot more of this kind of thing where people are trying to scam you out of money. It seems scary when you think of your ssn and credit card numbers are out there for people to see. It would seem that any clerk that has access to your numbers could misuse them.

 

[RoyJackson]

Forward Spam or "Phishing" email to SPAM@UCE.GOV

The FTC is trying to clean up the net.

FTC Unveils New E-mail Address for Deceptive Spam: Spam@uce.gov

I'd like the government to stay away from the internet

 

[MadDogDriver]

I don't consider myself paranoid , but.........besides a good virus detector, firewall protection, and several adware/malware detectors I also use IE Privacy Keeper, IE Privacy Keeper. It is FREE and does a great job of cleaning up cookies, cache. It gives plenty of options for other privacy concerns. I guess I feel fortunate not to have much of that type SPAM. Using emails that include SPAM filtering helps alot too.

 

[Unclebuck257]

Bird,

I check e-mail every morning before I go to any sites. I'm getting about two of those same e-mails you got, on a daily basis too. In fact, not 20 minutes ago I deleted two more of them from my personal e-mail and 3 of those exact e-mails from my business site.

Face it Bird, you and I are just nice people that others trust and want to lend all that money to!! LOL!!!

 

[Kendall69]

I make personal sport at dealing with these guys. I go to a site that allows me to trace the senders IPO, then I do one of two things, copy that address 250 times, changing just the first number by one. Example - 1abuse@scummailer.com,2abuse@scummailer.com, etc etc. Then I copy all 250 addresses and place them in the blind copy address box, change my address to a fake address, then copy the important info on who sent it when, and off the "bomb" goes.
On there end they get 250 e-mails from me that says STOP SENDING this ^&^%&^%&%^ stuff - and some time I"resend" this so they get a few thousand of these at a time.
Now for the ones that come from China I have even more fun with. In China ALL e-mails are under the scrutiny of the Government, so in the heading I place things like, REVOLT NOW, OVERTURN THE GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE UNITE, HU Jintao IS A BLANKETY BLANK, ...you get my point.
If I get an email direct from someone in AFRICA, and they are probably on dial up, I'm on cable, then I send a HUGE file that will take 30 minutes to download, so I'm sure I've tied up their computer for hours.

I used to get up to 1500 e-mails a day of spam. I'm down to a high of 52 and a low of 11, this month, according to my spam blocker.

Yes there is revenge to the scammers.

 

[zos]

Just one of many scams on the internet. If your email allows you can block the sender, but normally this will not do much good.

I often send these type of emails (with full headers) to the security department of the financil instutution they claim to belong to.

You normally get a nice note back saying not from us, If you clicked on the email link you should verify that you have not been a vctum ofd Identiy theif.

They also normally state that they are investagating the web site and will close itr down and refer the site ownwers to law inforcement

Zos