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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:26 am  (#41) 
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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:28 am  (#42) 
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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:07 pm  (#43) 
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Oregonian wrote:
This really makes me wonder how secure Google mail is. There are other reports of the same thing happening to others.

Change your gmail passwords regularly.

:tyspin Tis true ^ Use Yahoo!

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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:41 am  (#44) 
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Here is a new one i just received today -

Dear Customer!!!

We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirm able
Package that is registered with us for shipping to your residential
Location. We had thought that your sender gave you our contact
Details. It may interest you to know that a letter is also added to
Your package.

We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank
Draft worth of $750,000.00 USD, FedEx does not ship money in CASH or in
CHEQUES but Bank Drafts are shippable. The package is registered with
Us for mailing by your colleague from United Nations Organization, and
Your colleague explained that he is from the U.S.A but he is currently
In Africa for a three (3) months Surveying Project as he works with a
Consultant firm in Nigeria, We are sending you this email because your
Package is been registered on a Special Order. For your information, the
VAT & Shipping charges as well as Insurance fees have been paid by your
Colleague before your package was registered. Note that the payment that
is made on the Insurance, Premium & Clearance Certificates, are to certify
That the Bank Draft is not a Drug Affiliated Fund (DAF). This will help you
Avoid any form of query from the Monetary Authority of your country.

However, you will have to pay a sum of $196.00 USD to the FedEx Delivery
Department being full payment for the Security Keeping Fee of the parcel
Been registered by your colleague, FedEx Company as stated in our privacy
Terms & condition page. Send your Postal address, telephone and your name
In full this is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone.
Please note that packages are not shipped nor delivered on Saturday,
Sunday and on holidays. If your order has been placed on any of these days,
Then it may be shipped the following business day.
Kindly complete the below form and send it to the FEDEX DELIVERY POST
With the below informations.This is mandatory to reconfirm your
Postal address and telephone numbers.

FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SEX:
CITY:
STATE:
OCUPATION:
COUNTRY:

FEDEX DELIVERY POST
Email: [email protected]
Phone number: +234-703-915-7744
Contact Person: Mr Leon Cooley.

**ALL PACKAGES ARE SIGNATURE REQUIRED.
If you have any other questions or concerns,
Please feel free to contact us between
Monday – Friday: 9:00am – 9:00pm EST
Saturdays: 10:00am – 5:00pm EST
Sundays: 10:00am - 4:00pm EST
Have a great day!

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FedEx Online Team Management.
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Desconecta el cargador de tu celular cuando no lo estes usando, asi cuidas tu medio ambiente.

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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:20 am  (#45) 
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How could anyone fall for all of that?

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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:19 am  (#46) 
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I know right? :P

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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:23 pm  (#47) 
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My mother in law has been getting Emails from 'the FBI', it's really sad how they prey on old people. Freddy (mother in law) has had the good sense to just trash them but still wasn't sure if they might be for real. I think that anyone who is computer literate should help educate old folks on how scams work so they don't become victims.

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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:25 pm  (#48) 
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... and if the FBI wanted to contact you, they'd be at your door, not in an email.

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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:33 pm  (#49) 
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The warning about the environment in Spanish was part of this scam email?
Gerard.

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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:14 am  (#50) 
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Oregonian wrote:
... and if the FBI wanted to contact you, they'd be at your door, not in an email.

and around here if the FBI wanted to talk with you they wold go through the local cops. Yet old people still fall for this

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 Post subject: Re: Beware! Email Scam
PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:45 am  (#51) 
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Love those. Like Robert Mueller has nothing better to do with his time than to personally e-mail a select few people to advise them they are up to no good while asking for information he already has access to ... or would have access to if he were actually Robert Mueller. :hehe


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