clagnol

Apr 10 2005, 01:40 AM

QUOTE(no9t9 @ Apr 9 2005, 04:32 PM)

I got some of those emails too.  Are you talking about the one where he says he is a poor refugee and any donation will help him?  I'm sure tons of people sent money to those scammers at the beginning but once people caught on and started hearing about the scam, it's clear that it will stop working.  That's probably why you haven't seen much of it lately.

I actually haven't heard of that particular scam. The ones I get generally start with the premise that there is a great deal of money from an inheritance that I can claim if I provide my bank account information to the person who sent the email. Often there are religious undertones, e.g. they will type something like "my brother in Christ". It's a pretty lame scam, but apparently it works, because I get tons of these emails.

 

 

 

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JaVe

Apr 10 2005, 03:00 PM

Yup, i reported it to spoof@paypal. I get them in my other emails too and one email even had my password in the title! S*****TTT! Anyway, somebody's wahcting me...these emails do sound convincing though

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iwuvcookies

Apr 23 2005, 06:25 PM

Omg are you serious. I entered my information into that site. But there were no money in my paypal account anyways. so it really dones't matter. Lol. I thought the site was legitiamate. Thanks for making me more aware of things like that.

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Becca

Apr 11 2005, 04:39 PM

Pah!! those aye. I just know it when it's not real.. ANYONE could know.! lol. I just put a load of crap into the boxes that are all incorrect.. it doesn't even ask you to redo it like normal if you write a wrong card number it will understand and tell you..

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weeman212

Apr 11 2005, 11:31 AM

i had a thing like that from ebay, some-one was sayin a load of harley davidsons had been listed, and it says to sort this out please click here, i looked at the address and it wasn't ebay

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