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I get the bank scam e-mails all the time, with the phoney links which appear to be taking you to Barclays, NatWest or whoever but which of course go to somewhere quite different.
Apart from the usual widows of Nigerian Generals who want to make me rich, I had a wonderful attempt at extortion a couple of months ago. Apparently somebody I call a friend had decided to have me "rubbed out," but the hit man had been following me, realized I was innocent of the "crimes," and willing to cross his employer if I paid him $8000.
Back to the phone scams though, we have all the non-geographical 0870 and "personal/corporate" numbers in the 07xx and 05xx codes here, which the scammers like to use, since those number can be pointed anywhere.
Some of the fraudsters must think people are stupid though. I've received e-mails saying "Please fax your details to our London office," and then giving a phone number which starts with 00 852 -- Hong Kong!
I was getting Viagra and other spam text messages on my cell. I had to call the carrier and have them remove the text message function.
-Hal
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Originally posted by Paul Coxwell: Apparently somebody I call a friend had decided to have me "rubbed out," but the hit man had been following me, realized I was innocent of the "crimes," and willing to cross his employer if I paid him $8000.
Wow! That's a new one. :rofl:
"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to." -- Jimi Hendrix
one good way to get even, so to speak is to use your PC and a fax program and fax them 999 copies of a black page (uses a lot of ink and paper) There are a lot of scams out there and new ones every day.
Re the Uganda and other 'have I got a deal for you' scams. I just reply telling them that just as soon as they send me a video clip of themselves eating feces ( ) and howling at the moon, I'll get right on their request! John C. (Not Garand)
When I was young, I was Liberal. As I aged and wised up, I became Conservative. Now that I'm old, I have settled on Curmudgeon.
I have a friend that is selling a Fold-A-Boat. He used Craigs List and he got an email from someone saying they were mailing him a check so he says OK after it clears. Well yesterday he got the check and it is for 3800.00 and the boat is only 800.00 so he calls the sheriff, of course sheriff says it's a phoney and we are laughing about it and while we are still talking DHL comes to his door again and they have another 3800.00 check from someone else. Looks like the fools didn't communicate with each other as to who was supposed to send the check. Cool thing is they are out almost 40.00 for DHL
) and howling at the moon, I'll get right on their request! John C. (Not Garand)