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65 Comments on Yahoo Email Address? Recent 447024098886 Scam
Leolinda:
It is hard to believe that anyone would fall for this scam. The email you received is so wrong on many levels. The best thing to do is to call the person mentioned and verify the information.
I received this scam a couple of months ago but I don't recall it coming from anyone's e-mail that I know. I can tell you that no matter how friendly I have become with some of my clients, I would never expect any kind of request of money from any of them. If it were a close friend or relative the request would not be in e-mail format, so I would never consider an e-mail like this to be anything but a scam.
Good catch on the scam and for taking the time to check on your client. There will always be scams as long as we have internet and email. It's always best to google the number before doing anything or as you did check on the people in the email. It's hard to believe people fall for these scams but it only takes one to keep the scammers going. They had an article on this today talking about it being used on Facebook. Just be alert and cautious.
Just to help you understand better. This is not from hacking. It is from spoofing and there is a big difference. The way it works is you are on facebook. A screen pops up and says "you've been disconnected, please sign back in" so you enter your facebook name and password and your back in. But you were never really disconnected in the first place. The screen that popped up just sent everything you entered to the bad guys. The screen disappears and you think you logged back in. Most people have the same sign in/password for facebook and email account. Now they can go into both and collect data for months and you would never know it. If you are ever asked to sign back into something, close that screen and log back in the way you normally would.
This particular scam went around on Facebook several years ago. It amazes me how many people send money for something like that. I must be the most heartless person on earth, cause I wouldn't even consider it. Plenty of people do, though.
We had this go around our area several months ago! My friend just started answering the phone.... "I'm not in London, but if you want to send money.... it's okay with me!" He was fine and took all this in stride, but just think of WHAT COULD HAVE OCCURED!
Those scammes get more clever all the time. I suspect the embassy would have helped them.
I've gotten this one too. And plenty of them telling me I've won a contest I didn't enter, or my long-lost unknown relative has left me money.
Also have gotten some that said they were a "greeting card" from friends or former clients. Those are more dangerous, because if you click, you get a virus.I've called or e-mailed the people who supposedly sent them and have always found that they were NOT from the person whose name was listed.
Since this started, I never open greeting cards - so probably miss a real one now and then.
I forgot to mention - I keep an address taped to the top of my screen for forwarding this kind of junk to someone who might take steps to stop them.
It's spam@uce.gov
Hi Leolinda
Heres the deal. This is called Phising What they do is set acomputer program to send out a billion emails to folks that look very much like they were sent by your E-mail provider they say something to the effect of We are going through deleting unused accounts to save space, and if you don't want yours deleted fill out questionair below and return. yes you guessed it one of the questions ask for your password. Well every once in awhile a dummy like me still half asleep falls for this. Once you make the mistake of sending that computer program your password it instantaniously changes it and mails every one in your address book the help me stuck in london letter. Oh thank god all my freinds are smarter than Me LOL. The worst thing is your email provider will be very leary of returning control of your account to you can because they want to be certain your not the scammer. This proccess can take several days of emailing back and forth Because they don't do phones.
The whole expeiriance Can be very embarassing especially when your baby brother laughs histerically and says you idiot don't you know your e-mail provider does not need to ask for your password they already have it LOL, he has gotten very brave since he moved 3000 miles away LOL. Any way these scammers are very convincing and they know they won't fool every one all the time but they do so much volume they just have to a catch a few off gaurd every once in awhile .............Brad
Ps these guys are lucky I am not a high tech dude because if I could have tracked them ..........well lets just say I was very a upset 6'4" 280lbs Iron worker at the time
I'm always amazed when people fall for these, but it usually happens when they are rushing through emails.
Hi Leolinda,
Unfortunately, I've had several friends whose email accounts were hijacked and used for scams like this. Oprah did a show on these emails scams several years ago. Most seem to originate in Nigeria, where most people know nothing but crime, as a way of survival.
It's a good thing you're smart & knew that something wasn't right. I hope that no one actually sent money.
Have a great weekend,
Gina Lemos
Leolinda - I received a similar email. This one was an active duty military leaving to fight in Afghanistan. Took me a couple of replies, before I got as mad as I have been in a long time. Someone posing as one of our finest!
I received an email recently from a hitman who wanted money not to go through with the job. First clue it was a scam was he wanted money from me who happens to make a living selling real estate in a resort area. SERIOUSLY !!!
Liolinda, I have a friend who had this happen to him and he was the one supposedly stuck in a foreign country. They sent it out to all kinds of people in his contact list. He couldn't let any of them know because it then deleted all of his contacts. He was apologizing to people for months. It's amazing what people come up with to scam others!!! I hope their bad karma comes back to them.
Leolinda ~ that is a new one to me. I have never seen this, but will steer clear of it if I see it!
Thanks for the heads up! I saw a similar one from a fellow real estate agent's email a few months back. Hard to believe it's still going strong.
It must be big business cause they are doing it so often. I can't imagine any one that I know ever emailing me to ask for money. Calling me? maybe, but emailing me, highly unlikely.
Leolinda - How touching that you stopped by to make sure these people were all right. I am sure they must have appreciated the gesture.
Scammers are everywhere. Heads up everyone!