Phishing email/password thief/backdoor

[greenbarn]

I bet you have, what about all those free speed cameras that are there for your safety, what about those free traffic cops..what about those free parking attendants..You just haven't noticed them..(until it was too late)..

John.

Oh, yea, I forgot about them.... (more taxes)...

[John Hopkins]

I got caught up in a GIANT scam...   This organization calls themselves the IRS or something like that, and they said I needed to send them a whole bunch of money that's supposed to bring me great benefits - Free health care,  Free roads, a whole bunch of FREE stuff.   SO FAR, I've sent them THOUSANDS of DOLLARS and haven't seen ANY of the free stuff...   

I bet you have, what about all those free speed cameras that are there for your safety, what about those free traffic cops..what about those free parking attendants..You just haven't noticed them..(until it was too late)..

John.

[greenbarn]

I got caught up in a GIANT scam...   This organization calls themselves the IRS or something like that, and they said I needed to send them a whole bunch of money that's supposed to bring me great benefits - Free health care,  Free roads, a whole bunch of FREE stuff.   SO FAR, I've sent them THOUSANDS of DOLLARS and haven't seen ANY of the free stuff...   

[zig]

You guys do know those art dealers get your email addresses from those "adult" art sites y'all visit don't you?
I don't have a clue as to how that prince got my email address!

[DC]

I've won the Nigerian Lottery so many times now, I must be a BILLIONAIRE!

[John Hopkins]

I can top all of that with a real life alledged scam that is taking place as we speak..Look it up..

National Race Track of Wales.

A company has applied to build a giant motorcycle race track in the South Wales Valleys in a place called Ebbw Vale, They want to buy lots of common land in the area and build there, the project is going to cost nearly £100,000,000 and take one year to build..

So they applied for and received £2,000,000 from the local council just to prepare the planning and project paperwork, then they applied for £20,000,000 from the Welsh Government to part finance it, and £30,000,000 from the UK government also to part finance it, the rest will come from private investors who don't want to be named..

So far they are £2,000,000 up.

These Africans are just small potatoes..

John.

[pcarrell]

Yea, that Nigerian Prince thing is a real scam!...........Now this Women I'm talking to in Kenya.......she's an Art dealer and all her money is tied up in the International Bank there.......so she just needs me to send her 5K to pack up all her stuff.....and move here to be with me as my loving Wife!!!............Man........How lucky can one guy be!?!?!?!? I'm sending the Bank Draft tomorrow!

That's nothing!

I know this Women I'm talking to in Kenya.......she's an Art dealer and all her money is tied up in the International Bank there.......so she just needs me to send her 5K to pack up all her stuff.....and move here to be with me as my loving Wife!!!

[bikerbob5864]

Yea, that Nigerian Prince thing is a real scam!...........Now this Women I'm talking to in Kenya.......she's an Art dealer and all her money is tied up in the International Bank there.......so she just needs me to send her 5K to pack up all her stuff.....and move here to be with me as my loving Wife!!!............Man........How lucky can one guy be!?!?!?!? I'm sending the Bank Draft tomorrow!

[chief]

Yep, it is a serious problem... also some say they are from UPS and FedEx. Don't mess with them.

[CDNRatMan]

  Hey zig you know the same dude as me.....lol......

if I do not know the delete, when dealing with new people and I ask them to put their name and a common fact into the subject line for the first time they e mail me so I'll know who they are.

[zig]

Yeah, I do with email the same as phone calls. If I don't recognize them, I don't answer. There's no telling how many millions of dollars in inheritance I've given up from a Nigerian prince trying to wire money to my bank account....

[Troll]

I got an interesting email today. My email client, Thunderbird, flagged it as a phishing scam. It was from (supposedly) the United States Postal Service.....The return address was .UK....Interesting! It said that USPS was unable to deliver a package to my address, and I should go to this link and print a label to take to the PO to get my package...Yeah, right. I did a cut and paste and went to the web site in Chrome. It sent me a .RAR file. I unpacked it and this is what I found:
Bottom line, don't open it. It's a Russian scam to steal passwords.  I never even opened it as it was designed, and I still had to do a cleanup.