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14-07-09, 01:51 PM
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Attempted scam.
An e-mail arrived today offering a tax refund oh joy
 All I have to do is fill out this form with my bank details and money will be placed into my account (as if). HMRC say that lots of these are floating round at the moment and so I have sent it to the investigation unit If these people worked as hard at something legit as they do at these things they would be successful anyway so why try this stuff? |
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14-07-09, 01:52 PM
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Re: Attempted scam.
Because there are lots of stupid people about.
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14-07-09, 02:00 PM
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Re: Attempted scam.
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It will come from a compromised home PC that has a mail server installed on it through a virus and as such is untraceable back to the perpetrator of the act. Just delete and move on.
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14-07-09, 02:07 PM
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Re: Attempted scam.
How is it untraceable? Surely the compromised details must be returned to the perpetrator somehow?
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14-07-09, 02:11 PM
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Re: Attempted scam.
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14-07-09, 02:13 PM
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Re: Attempted scam.
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14-07-09, 02:13 PM
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Re: Attempted scam.
No, but I reckon every time a scam is mailed out, drop a 500lb bomb on a Nigerian internet cafe. If you don't get the scammer who sent the mail, you will get some other one...
I quite like the scam-baiting site, I think it is 419eater or something like that.
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14-07-09, 02:17 PM
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Re: Attempted scam.
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Its simple to find out which country an IP address comes from, its even simple to find out which ISP in that country has that address. After that its a stone-wall, the best you can hope for is that they send the spammer an email asking them to stop. I once did these traces as part of my job.
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14-07-09, 03:23 PM
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14-07-09, 03:26 PM
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Re: Attempted scam.
Scam mails cover something like 70% of the worlds emails PER DAY.
I know our entire mother company where our spam filters are gets over 1 million junk/spam/scam emails per day that are filtered out.... Just our company...... I'd be a scammer if I knew how. scr3w it, its easy money for others stupitty  Well if every other buggers getting away with it and living in mansions in America and such, why can't I  Morals, im stupid for having so many
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