How do you deal with Email Scams?

[67029]

Hello all how do you deal with email scams? Well if they ask you for money just copy and paste this below and they wont think were as stupid as we look! by the way this is how i deal with them!



Dear Mr Johnson,

Many thanks for the email and asking me to help by providing a bank account to receive a share of the $42m from the floating account of the deceased that nobody else knows about.

I see that you are the Director of International Relations at the bank that you work for in Madrid, imagine my surprise when you say that you 'don't know any foreigner in my life'. How do you do an international relations job and never know any foreigners? That must be a great job with little to do, oh I wish I had one like it.

I would really like to have helped however, upon a recent visit to the toilet, imagine my surprise when £10m (UK sterling) fell out of my arse. I am unsure on the tax implications of having come into (rather painfully) such a large amount of money.

I would therefore like to be able to move it out of the country, ideally to Madrid. Hang on, you work in Madrid in a bank don't you? Please would you send me your personal bank details and I will tranfer the money as soon as possible. I will require only £1,000 fee up front. You see as the money came out of my arse it is a bit dirty and therefore needs laundering.

I look forward to a prompt reply

Regards
Lord Marmaduke Dangleberry-Flangebottom III

 

[Geezertronic]

I just file them under T for Trash. Replying using your own email account only validates your email address and can usually lead to more spam being received.

It's a similar situation if you click on a fake link in some of the supposed emails from the banks that actually take you to a fake website that can also install spyware when you visit as well as nick your details if you are stupid enough to type them in.

Unfortunately there are vulnerable people or stupid people that actually fall for these scams and loose serious money to them.

 

[generalvegitable]

that is actually a good response to one of the 419 nigerian email scams, I may aswell do that but using an email address from somewhere like trashmail

 

[Dai.]

That is a very good reply to send to them!

I might use that :P

 

[flymo]

Lord Marmaduke Dangleberry-Flangebottom III

Good Lord, I went to school with your father, Lord Marmaduke Dangleberry-Flangebottom II. How is the old fella??

Seriously though, I came across an email exchange between one of these chancers and someone in the UK a while back and it was almost comical to see how far these guys will go to to get someone to take the bait. In the end this guy just admitted it was a scam and that he had mixed success in his endeavours but as mentioned above it only takes one buffoon to pay up and the scam pays for itself.

I still keep getting them though and still keep binning them too.

 

[generalvegitable]

this link may also be helpful to you:
http://www.419eater.com/index.php

 

[moonrakerz]

Twice I have contacted banks (different ones) about e-mails that I have received, not the usual Nigerian ones though, these looked pretty convincing.
Both were sent to the bank's dedicated fraud dept address.

The first one turned out to be genuine, from a company doing survey work for the bank, and had included the bank's name in their own, making the address look very dodgy. It took the bank 5 days to respond to my e-mail.
The second time I forwarded the e-mail in question to the bank (as directed on their website) - their server bounced it back - said it was Spam !

I just delete them all now, if the banks can't be bothered - why should I ?

 

[yorkie]

This has to be one of the best...

http://www.419eater.com/html/abu_moses.htm

 

[37401]

easy, I ignore them, if you reply they know its an active e-mail so they will continue to spam it

 

[90019]

I click the "Delete" button.

Get almost no spam anyway.

 

[Tom B]

I quite like them, actually. If people are thick enough to fall for them, they thoroughly deserve to lose their money!

 

[Geezertronic]

Rule of thumb: if it sounds too good to be true, it always is

 

[poshbakerloo]

People just need to be careful. There is always someone that falls for them urg...

 

[SWT Driver]

What I do is setup a false email address such as Boing_Boing@yahoo.com if I'm visiting a site for information that requires a log in.

That way any further mails either go into the ether, bounce back to them or any senders or sit in the email account until it's full then bounces.

 

[O L Leigh]

Prevention is better than cure, to be honest.

I'm very careful with my e-mail addresses and receive almost no spam whatsoever. I use Hotmail accounts wherever necessary and will close down one account and move onto another whenever one gets compromised. So far this has only happened twice, and on one of those ocassions it was down to a slip in my own judgement.

O L Leigh

 

[Aussie_Rail]

If it isn't from someone I know, and it sounds like a scam then I click the 'mark as a scam' button.

Doesn't help to reply to them either, just proves that your email account is active.

 

[flymo]

Doesn't help to reply to them either, just proves that your email account is active.

That's true but reading one of the email exchanges on the 419eater website I actually would quite like a wooden carving of my own head. I wonder if the African fella at deaths door is still doing them? Made me laugh big time that one did.

 

[Geezertronic]

That's true but reading one of the email exchanges on the 419eater website I actually would quite like a wooden carving of my own head. I wonder if the African fella at deaths door is still doing them? Made me laugh big time that one did.

He's been dying for the past 10+ years hasn't he?

 

[SouthEastern-465]

Hello all how do you deal with email scams? Well if they ask you for money just copy and paste this below and they wont think were as stupid as we look! by the way this is how i deal with them!



Dear Mr Johnson,

Many thanks for the email and asking me to help by providing a bank account to receive a share of the $42m from the floating account of the deceased that nobody else knows about.

I see that you are the Director of International Relations at the bank that you work for in Madrid, imagine my surprise when you say that you 'don't know any foreigner in my life'. How do you do an international relations job and never know any foreigners? That must be a great job with little to do, oh I wish I had one like it.

I would really like to have helped however, upon a recent visit to the toilet, imagine my surprise when £10m (UK sterling) fell out of my arse. I am unsure on the tax implications of having come into (rather painfully) such a large amount of money.

I would therefore like to be able to move it out of the country, ideally to Madrid. Hang on, you work in Madrid in a bank don't you? Please would you send me your personal bank details and I will tranfer the money as soon as possible. I will require only £1,000 fee up front. You see as the money came out of my arse it is a bit dirty and therefore needs laundering.

I look forward to a prompt reply

Regards
Lord Marmaduke Dangleberry-Flangebottom III

I think that e-mail was sent as a joke if you already have not discovered or its just simply spam and take no notice of it!

 

[90019]

I think that e-mail was sent as a joke if you already have not discovered or its just simply spam and take no notice of it!

Woosh!

 

[thefab444]

Please tell me you are having a larf!

 

[Geezertronic]

I think that e-mail was sent as a joke if you already have not discovered or its just simply spam and take no notice of it!

Repeat after me:

"I must read the whole of the thread (or even the first post properly) before replying!"

Hello all how do you deal with email scams? Well if they ask you for money just copy and paste this below and they wont think were as stupid as we look! by the way this is how i deal with them!

 

[SouthEastern-465]

Repeat after me:

"I must read the whole of the thread (or even the first post properly) before replying!"

Do you think your a comedian surely not? :roll:

 

[Geezertronic]

Do you think your a comedian surely not? :roll:

Nope, just joining in the banter from the two posts above mine

Woosh!

Please tell me you are having a larf!

 

[SouthEastern-465]

Go-ahead but I am sure lalf is spelt Laugh and this "Banter" is spam which I am not going to keep adding to?

 

[37401]

Repeat after me:

"I must read the whole of the thread (or even the first post properly) before replying!"

You sir, have been nominated for my "funniest reply of the year" comp

SE-465 are you still backseat modding?

Go-ahead but I am sure lalf is spelt Laugh and this "Banter" is spam which I am not going to keep adding to?

No because lalf isnt a word, you must mean larf?

no offence (or is it affence ) I can understand hitting a key next to the one you meant to press e.g latf, but wheres the l from?

 

[Geezertronic]

Go-ahead but I am sure lalf is spelt Laugh and this "Banter" is spam which I am not going to keep adding to?

Keep digging

 

[90019]

Keep digging

But then even more will go over his head!

 

[thefab444]

Go-ahead but I am sure lalf is spelt Laugh

"Larf" is a colloquialism, often associated with football e.g. "You're having a larf Ref!"

 

[37401]

"Larf" is a colloquialism...

and for those who dont know what one is:

Main Entry: jargon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: specialized language; dialect
Synonyms: abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk, buzzwords, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, shoptalk, slang, slanguage, speech, stale language, street talk, tongue, trite language, twaddle, usage, vernacular, vocabulary
Antonyms: standard