Dangerous fake email scams Page 28

Quote: Chappers @ 15th March 2018, 8:51 PM

Gotten?

That's usually a clue. Crap English.

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"Gotten" is olde English, now almost out of use except as part of "forgotten".

There are a lot of Bitcoin buy invitations going around on email at present.

While this is not exactly a scam it would be a very risky investment and the invites are fairly obviously of the "penny shares" variety, if they can persuade enough people to buy it will raise the price and therefore raise the value of their own holdings. But at some stage it will crash.

Quote: billwill @ 16th March 2018, 1:28 AM

"Gotten" is olde English, now almost out of use except as part of "forgotten".

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Sorry Bill. Of course I forgot that you probably spoke olde English when you were young.

He's still got the scars from the musket wounds.

Muskets?

Them thar scars are from arrows at the Battle of Hasting.

I just received this one.

Dear ljuba davechapman@XXXXXXXXXX,
This is to confirm that Wangare Mburu accepted the 302.01 EUR payment you sent on April 12, 2018.

Please note if you don't make this trancation you can Cancel it .

Amount: €302.01 EUR
Payment method: Card Payment

I've received an email supposedly from HMRC regarding a Tax Refund Notice.

Then they write "Center".

Bloody hell. If you want to con people at least give it a bit of thought.

Thee Mr Bill Gates has donated $5M to me personally.
You'd think his email address would be a bit posher though.

To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($5,000,000,00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, you are to send me

so that i can forward your payment information to you immediately. I am hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your City. please you have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

Thank you for accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful You Can Google my name for more information: Mr Bill Gates or Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Remain Blessed

Regards
Mr Bill Gates

This is a first: I just received a poorly worded email that essentially says that I've been targeted for murder on the dark web. The mysterious benefactor says that for $1200 they'll spare me and kill the hitman instead.

Certain people (or a certain person) on this forum may be responsible for engaging the hitman?

Quote: DaButt @ 16th January 2019, 3:00 PM

This is a first: I just received a poorly worded email that essentially says that I've been targeted for murder on the dark web. The mysterious benefactor says that for $1200 they'll spare me and kill the hitman instead.

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Can you trace the IP of the sender? Mate of mine got a few those and found they were coming from a university in China.

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 16th January 2019, 10:17 AM

Thee Mr Bill Gates has donated $5M to me personally.
You'd think his email address would be a bit posher though.

To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($5,000,000,00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, you are to send me

your full names.................
your contact address.........
country :...............
your personal telephone number...............

SEND YOUR ABOVE DETAILS TO mrgates29@gmail.com

so that i can forward your payment information to you immediately. I am hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your City. please you have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

Thank you for accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful You Can Google my name for more information: Mr Bill Gates or Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Remain Blessed

Regards
Mr Bill Gates

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And you don't think this is genuine?

Quote: Kenneth @ 16th January 2019, 4:58 PM

Can you trace the IP of the sender? Mate of mine got a few those and found they were coming from a university in China.

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It comes back to a Russian company. It's probably either a spam factory or they've hacked someone's account to send spam.

I've just had an attempted blackmail! it's the second one in a week though slightly different. They were very long but the substance was that (First one) they'd planted something in my computer and had a video of me masturbating at the computer which they'd release if I didn't stump up the cash. Second one (today), they put something on my computer which had shown porn videos I was watching and also videoed me watching them. Needless to say, both are a load of rubbish. However the alarming thing today was that it started with 'I know your password' then gave a password. I hunted through a large notebook and finally found the password - I had used it briefly, possible near enough 15 years ago (Bill when we were on Pam's site) for an avatar site which I only needed once. Does this mean somebody has accessed that site and found people's email addresses and passwords for that site? Both emails are very long and I skim read them before reporting them as phishing but the bottom line was a threat and money.

Has anybody else had this sort of thing?