Reports of frauds, deceptions and scams keep appearing, weekly even daily, on
major news channels and newspapers. Some of these frauds seem just too big and remote to be of immediate, direct relevance to our daily lives. But, we will eventually pay for the consequences and damages, in taxes, costs of goods and services, regulations, copy-cats etc.

I hope we can collect, in one thread, frauds and scams, reported or heard. We must become more aware and more educated to guard against frauds and scams
which impact upon the health, well being, and wealth of ourselves and our families.

This message I got last week, looks like a hacked yahoo account. For me it was a previous customer that had their account hacked and the email sent to anyone that had either had emailed her or she'd sent an email to. xoxo was placed in the subject field, this is nothing more than spam, I didn't click on the link though so can't confirm if indeed a virus or anything attaches itself as a result if the action.

The ones that came through last night were from an @aol account. And the one last week was btinternet.

I've deleted the ones coming to me before they reach my PC - but I had a look at one with an Android tablet which is how I know what happens when you click the URL.

TP

I spoke to the people who had the problem and were on @aol.

It seems that someone has hacked into aol and hotmail and is using the subscribers passwords.

I gather that with aol and hotmail you can leave an address book on the server - and this is what is being used to create the spam emails. If that is the case then presumably you can create an address book on btinternet. Seems a pretty dodgy thing to do, IMHO.

EDIT. BTinternet offers a yahoo mail add on - and yahoo will keep all your addresses 'safely' on its server!

My pal solved her problem by changing her password.

TP

I've won 2 million euro's!

Or so this email says....

Congratulations!! Your e-mail has been selected as the winner of (2 Million
euro's) in the ''EURO RAFFLE PROMO '' Held NOVEMBER, 2013 in Barcelona,
Your mail was Selected from a database of our sponsors Web Directories.

RESPOND WITH DETAIL´S BELOW ;

Name...
Address..
City.....
Contact Tel...

We await your informations soon.


I think I'll be keeping my informations to myself!

But it may be genuine Skinny! :o)

Yep have you forgotten you bought a ticket 10 years ago when you were in Trinidad
:o)

There's a EBAY scam going around , don't know if its been posted on here.

Is obviously my turn atm.

I've just had a very convincing looking email and download from what looks to be a legit address for Virgin credit cards.

Having just spoken to them, there are apparently fraudulent emails circulating (no shit).

Dear Customer,

We are writing to inform you that your we are cancelling your paper and online
statements because of problems related to your online credit card service.

A short customer verification will be required of your immediately. Please
download the secure Virgin Money document attached in this mail and follow the
instructions in it. Failure to do so will result in a temporal suspension of
your online credit card service.

Kind Regards

The Virgin Credit Card Team

have been receiving very similar requests from PAYPAL, don't open the enclosure.

What is 'temporal suspension' anyway? :-)

Most people are aware of these bank scams,but of course you will always find someone that is gullable and will fall for it,hook,line and sinker.

If in doubt dont open any link other wise you will have your bank account emptied.

Bloody hell,can anyone lend us a fiver,as i have much less money in my bank account as i had 1st thought :o)

It was one of the more convincing emails - MBNA have recently taken over the Virgin cc business.

The email addresses looked authentic - which is unusual :- "Virgin Credit Cards virginmoney@MBNA.co.uk"



Still no idea what 'temporal suspension' is though - hanging around I guess!

your we??

It's obviously 'my turn' of late - another unopened email purporting to be from Wells Fargo advisors with a Russian email address - anyone like me to forward it?

Nooooooo thank you! :o)

Wow! Fantastic!! I've had a letter from Financial Services Dept., Audits & Claim Center telling me that I have won £167,900.00! It will only cost me £17 to complete my claim (add £3 if paying by cheque, oh and an extra £2 if I want the money quickly!) There will be much celebrating in my house tonight I can tell you! It is a good job the letter was delivered otherwise it would have gone back to "Private Locked Bag, Nadi Airport, Fiji"!

I've just received and email from support support@barclays.net notifying me of a successful money transfer with an attached zipped receipt - it looks very very real!?

Yes, there getting more realistic aren't they Skinny? I received one from Ebay yesterday in and old a/c that I hardly use.

Prompt reply from Barclays.

Sorry for this inconvenience. This is a SPAM message so do not take any action from it. If the message contained any attachments that you opened I would strongly suggest you run a virus scan on your computer

Thank you for bringing this to our attention

Just has a call from the 'telephone preference service' noting that I was receiving a large number of nuisance calls. They offered me a box to plug into the back of my phone which would block all nuisance calls from UK and abroad for just £1.80 per month for 3 years, then free lifetime service. The first guy was very fast talking and when he had explained everything he put me on to a senior manager with better English and less accent who asked me for either my credit card details or bank account details. At first was quite believable for a second or two, but told the 'senior manager' to get lost. H