Off Topic *** SCAM ALERT ***

[Smug in Boots]

I've just had an email from a close relative saying they've tried, but failed, to buy an Amazon e-gift voucher as a present for someone's birthday today.

Of course it's a scam which I confirmed when I called my relative in Chopwell.

These people used his e-address and mine so, at first glance, looked genuine.

Anyway, I'm just posting this as a reminder to people that it's a minefield out there.

I've just reported it, to the police, and told 'my relative' that I'm driving and will do it at 8pm.

I doubt anything can be done but here's their email address just in case anyone messages you ...

... [email protected]

 

[Smug in Boots]

I called the police who said someone, in that field, would call me straight back ... of course they didn't.

I had a follow up email, from the scammer, asking me if I'd had any luck sending the £300 Amazon voucher.

I sent a reply, the start of which I've posted below ...

... no doubt the police will be straight round to question me if they see it

"Yes I've had some luck, I'm lucky not to be you.

I hope your mother dies a horrible agonising death and your children grow up to despise you as they should.

The police were sent your messages, as soon as you sent them, and I've instructed my IT manager to do a thorough search on you ...

... etc etc etc."

 

[ISOE II]

I had one from an ex work colleague who I still keep in touch with. She was often in Spain with her partner (he works the rigs so was loaded and liked to spend most of his two weeks off the rigs on her at either the Ramside (Fnar Fnar) or in Spain.

The scammer must have known all this as I got an email from her asking to buy a gift voucher for her, as she’d forgotten her niece’s birthday and it was really important she got it, as her niece had cancer and she was on holiday in Spain.

The sick scammer scrote had realised her niece (girl of 11) had cancer and would play on my heart strings. What they hadn’t done was enough homework, as they’d have known her niece had died :-(

I knew it was a scam at that point, but also knew she had other nieces, but due to the nature of the messages I had to discuss it with a mutual friend who is closer to her than me to make sure there wasn’t another niece with cancer.

I reported it to the national agency who deals with these Amazon voucher scammers as it is very sophisticated and very sick.

My friend still doesn’t know what happened. Why does she need to know about sick fcks like that?

 

[Evil Jimmy Krankie]

I called the police who said someone, in that field, would call me straight back ... of course they didn't.

I had a follow up email, from the scammer, asking me if I'd had any luck sending the £300 Amazon voucher.

I sent a reply, the start of which I've posted below ...

... no doubt the police will be straight round to question me if they see it

"Yes I've had some luck, I'm lucky not to be you.

I hope your mother dies a horrible agonising death and your children grow up to despise you as they should.

The police were sent your messages, as soon as you sent them, and I've instructed my IT manager to do a thorough search on you ...

... etc etc etc."

To be honest mate the police won’t do anything and I’ll be surprised if they do. You’ve identified the scam. You didn’t act upon the information provided within the email other than call your relative to ensure it was a scam. Basically other than wasting a bit of time calling your relative nothing has happened to make the transfer of cash take place. As I understand the state of the UK at the moment if the police don’t turn up for a burglary then it’s highly unlikely that they will do anything about something that realistically amounts to a minor imbuggerance. They’re more concerned with arresting people for hurty words.
Scammers rely on playing on emotions and giving a sense of urgency to their emails. They send out thousands of these emails a day in the hope that someone will bite. We have to accept that there are people out there who are intrinsically dishonest so we have to be on our guard against them.
In an ideal world the police would investigate but as we all know, this isn’t an ideal world.

 

[John Wick]

I've just had an email from a close relative saying they've tried, but failed, to buy an Amazon e-gift voucher as a present for someone's birthday today.

Of course it's a scam which I confirmed when I called my relative in Chopwell.

These people used his e-address and mine so, at first glance, looked genuine.

Anyway, I'm just posting this as a reminder to people that it's a minefield out there.

I've just reported it, to the police, and told 'my relative' that I'm driving and will do it at 8pm.

I doubt anything can be done but here's their email address just in case anyone messages you ...

... [email protected]

c**nts nearly got us last week. Called Amazon straight away and got the money back. The family friend in question they were impersonating is an elderly, very well educated and articulated man. The email was exactly as he would send. I can only assume he has been hacked and they have ran an email of his through AI and asked it to generate one using his style, grammar etc. I thought it odd at the time and kicked myself for after for not being on the ball more to question it at the time. Normally id have told my lot to hold off while we atleast called the gent in person to confirm. But at the time I was suffering from a heavy cold and not thinking straight. Lucky the daft c**ts had only redeemed the voucher but didn't have the brain to spend it, so a very helpful person at Amazon was able to freeze the voucher and refund us. I dread to think how many others have fallen for this. These f**kers need stringing up.

 

[John Wick]

I had one from an ex work colleague who I still keep in touch with. She was often in Spain with her partner (he works the rigs so was loaded and liked to spend most of his two weeks off the rigs on her at either the Ramside (Fnar Fnar) or in Spain.

The scammer must have known all this as I got an email from her asking to buy a gift voucher for her, as she’d forgotten her niece’s birthday and it was really important she got it, as her niece had cancer and she was on holiday in Spain.

The sick scammer scrote had realised her niece (girl of 11) had cancer and would play on my heart strings. What they hadn’t done was enough homework, as they’d have known her niece had died :-(

I knew it was a scam at that point, but also knew she had other nieces, but due to the nature of the messages I had to discuss it with a mutual friend who is closer to her than me to make sure there wasn’t another niece with cancer.

I reported it to the national agency who deals with these Amazon voucher scammers as it is very sophisticated and very sick.

My friend still doesn’t know what happened. Why does she need to know about sick fcks like that?

The one we were got with user the caner string aswell mate. No cancer here, I just think they take a shot in the dark and see where it hits.

 

[Evil Jimmy Krankie]

I received this email today.
I really want to reply and tell him that this couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment. I have a yearning to open up a fancy dress shop and as if by magic this cash will help me do that. Once it’s open I really hope he can come along for a visit and maybe try on a few costumes.

My Name Is Mr Mark Ben From CITI bank I'm here to Know If You Have Receive Any Compensation Of Funds Before
Yet? Because Federal Government Has Approved $50 Million Dollars To Use To Compensate All The Scammers Victory Each So If You Know That You Haven't Receive Yours Yet Kindly Get Back To Me And Let Me Know How You Want To Receive The Money Between.
ATM card...$75
Cashier check.$150
Consignment box.$100
Walmart to Walmart..$130
Online banking transfer......$300
Western union transfer......$180
Now Choose One Of The Options And Let Me Know Now Thanks Your Urgent Respond Is Needed Now If You're Really Interested
For Your Own Compensation OK.

 

[RTB]

I received this email today.
I really want to reply and tell him that this couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment. I have a yearning to open up a fancy dress shop and as if by magic this cash will help me do that. Once it’s open I really hope he can come along for a visit and maybe try on a few costumes.

My Name Is Mr Mark Ben From CITI bank I'm here to Know If You Have Receive Any Compensation Of Funds Before
Yet? Because Federal Government Has Approved $50 Million Dollars To Use To Compensate All The Scammers Victory Each So If You Know That You Haven't Receive Yours Yet Kindly Get Back To Me And Let Me Know How You Want To Receive The Money Between.
ATM card...$75
Cashier check.$150
Consignment box.$100
Walmart to Walmart..$130
Online banking transfer......$300
Western union transfer......$180
Now Choose One Of The Options And Let Me Know Now Thanks Your Urgent Respond Is Needed Now If You're Really Interested
For Your Own Compensation OK.

Looks legit
Which option did you go for?

 

[Comfy]

Our lass received a phone call from them last week, woman on the end of it was from the Asian community and was asking her if she would like Amazon vouchers. Knew straight away it was a scam as Amazon don't ring you unless you request a call back when trying to contact them. Rang them straight back and reported it

 

[rooch 3]

I received this email today.
I really want to reply and tell him that this couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment. I have a yearning to open up a fancy dress shop and as if by magic this cash will help me do that. Once it’s open I really hope he can come along for a visit and maybe try on a few costumes.

My Name Is Mr Mark Ben From CITI bank I'm here to Know If You Have Receive Any Compensation Of Funds Before
Yet? Because Federal Government Has Approved $50 Million Dollars To Use To Compensate All The Scammers Victory Each So If You Know That You Haven't Receive Yours Yet Kindly Get Back To Me And Let Me Know How You Want To Receive The Money Between.
ATM card...$75
Cashier check.$150
Consignment box.$100
Walmart to Walmart..$130
Online banking transfer......$300
Western union transfer......$180
Now Choose One Of The Options And Let Me Know Now Thanks Your Urgent Respond Is Needed Now If You're Really Interested
For Your Own Compensation OK.

Take the $75 option mate, not that much to lose if it’s a scam.

 

[young2077]

Our lass received a phone call from them last week, woman on the end of it was from the Asian community and was asking her if she would like Amazon vouchers. Knew straight away it was a scam as Amazon don't ring you unless you request a call back when trying to contact them. Rang them straight back and reported it

I often used to receive them pretending to be 02. Asking for my account email so they can check apply a 75% discount as a loyal customer.

The plan being to get you to then give them numerical code sent to your phone as a password reset code to get into.ypur account!

If I had time I'd toy with them from just asking them questions like "if you can see my account already you know my email so why you asking for it", telling them I think what I was paying was a great deal and if anything should be paying more so didn't need a discount but my favourite was to give them an email address but say it was complicated so I would need to spell it phonetically for them and I would spell and then say say thats email address given and it would stuff like:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Some would click on straight away and put the phone down others would get angry and swear and shiur insults while telling my account would be blocked in the next hour! But the best were ones who would say the account wasnt recognised and ask for the email again!

I haven't had a call from them in ages actually it was at one point almost daily

 

[TIGERSCAVE]

Just had a scam e mail from DVLA..... payment not taken.... click on the sender e mail its in Indonesia... be careful out there!!!

 

[Snaggey]

Ive sent the log book off to dvla to get the Mrs car put in my name, this also cancelled the road tax on it.
Went online this morning to tax it and put in Google search gov.uk/vehicle tax.
Went on the first search result, but its a scam. It looks legit, brought up the car when I entered the reg etc.
I only twigged when the price was different to what it should be, £20 per year. I also didn't have to enter anything from the v5 new owner slip, which i thought was odd.
Came out of the site, the second option on the search result was the correct one.

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[RTB]

Ive sent the log book off to dvla to get the Mrs car put in my name, this also cancelled the road tax on it.
Went online this morning to tax it and put in Google search gov.uk/vehicle tax.
Went on the first search result, but its a scam. It looks legit, brought up the car when I entered the reg etc.
I only twigged when the price was different to what it should be, £20 per year. I also didn't have to enter anything from the v5 new owner slip, which i thought was odd.
Came out of the site, the second option on the search result was the correct one.

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Google should be fined for sponsoring this type of scam

 

[C Montgomery Burns]

Ive sent the log book off to dvla to get the Mrs car put in my name, this also cancelled the road tax on it.
Went online this morning to tax it and put in Google search gov.uk/vehicle tax.
Went on the first search result, but its a scam. It looks legit, brought up the car when I entered the reg etc.
I only twigged when the price was different to what it should be, £20 per year. I also didn't have to enter anything from the v5 new owner slip, which i thought was odd.
Came out of the site, the second option on the search result was the correct one.

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Anything official involving the government (HMRC, Pensions, DVLA etc.) should always be through the gov.uk website. Avoid anything that tries to take you somewhere else. Gov.uk has inbedded links to the various departments, so it avoids you being misdirected. The scammer websites are pretty convincing these days especially if you don't use official sites regularly so don't realise straight away they're wrong. Same with banks and insurance, it's safer to contact the company directly to make sure you've not been scammed.

Some scammers are very convincing and the really suck thing is if they can prey on a vulnerable person they will go as far as they can to take advantage.

 

[TeamOfTalents]

Google should be fined for sponsoring this type of scam

Nail on head.