fake email alert

[gibbleking]

look what i just got....they must think i was born yesterday......

Send that image to www.419eater.com and see what they make of it.

yup they are the ones i was talking about...fantastic site....

 

[tintin40]

does any one fall for those bank e-mails?? I got one from Barclays. I made up some a/c details and sent them to him Alas i got loads more after that. But at least he thought he had tricked some one for a few mins till the details didn't work.

 

[orange71]

and don't reply, even to send them abuse, as they'll then know they've reached an active account and can send you even more crap :roll: :evil:

 

[rosstheboss]

I'm usually very careful about opening emails from banks etc i.e. I don't!!! I'm also antivirus/spyware etc proofed up to the hilt, but today I logged onto my igoogle page and immediately my hotmail account went mental, sent a load of shite emails to all my address book advertising some shop in china, then wiped my address book. Bollocks and also strange considering my sent items folder says I sent the emails to lots of people I DON'T know as well as every one of my contacts.... :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

 

[Lysander]

does any one fall for those bank e-mails??.........

I asked a friend who worked in banking fraud that.........his answer was "you wouldn't ***king believe how many"

 

[Mr Panda]

I don't usually get them, but funnily enough this morning there was one from ............The Royal Nigerian Bank, Skye Branch, Highland Region .......hmmmmm I don't think so mateys.

Haven't deleted it yet as I thougt it was so funny. Might send to an "unsecure" computer and open there for a giggle. :roll:

Now, on a totally unrelated, yet strangely similar note, I used to get excellent Guinness brewed in Nigeria - I kid you not. The real McCoy, special export version and higher octane thn the usual stuff. V Nice - haven't seen it for years now :cry:

 

[Lysander]

Hmmmm...........and what was it that alerted you that this may be fake?

 

[pete_mcc]

The only spam I ever get is these. Normally two a day, Halifax, RBS, Abbey National and Lloyds. They always claim to be upgrading or that your account is suspended due to suspicious usage, and they always spell apologise with a z

 

[mikef350]

I once fell for an email that i had in my junk folder fact it was around 3 weeks ago :cry: .it was a eamil from hmrc the tax man (wel so i thought)saying that had reveiwed my tax over last year and i was due 250quid rebate well me being skint fell for it hook line sinker and clicked the link the followed the instructions and like a idiot i put my bank details in(to what looked like my online bank account)and when i had fill'd out all the forms i clicked next and that was it no more screens on other things telling me what to do.so thought that was weird and rang the local tax office and they said they would never ask for details over the internet.luckily i only had 42pence in me bank but it was the hassle off cancleing evertything and redoing it.what a jack ass hey?