FRAUDULENT ATTEMPTS TO GET MY CREDIT CARD OR BANK INFO!!!!

[Nitetimes]

Boy, you guys are doing good. Several a day, I wish!! I've got about 10 email accounts and if I don't get a hundred of each of those every day I don't get one!
All you have to do is put your mouse over the link and look at your bar down on the bottom and it will show you the address, no need to hit the reply button.

[ARKPAT]

I have added a "Firefox " add-on to my browser to show where a site originates. Real neat.







Pat

[Ira]

What about all those emails that say they can make my, well, you know, that thing bigger? Do those work? Tom? Mike? Any experience with that?

Or is this a question I should be directing towards Ira?

I've found that a good massage makes my thing bigger.

[bsandey]

Crooks have always been quick to latch on to emerging technologies. The word "phoney" was originally coined to describe con artists who plied their trade over the phone in the early 20th century.

I use to work at a factory that I was the IT Coordinator. I got phone calls all the time from scammers trying to sell toner cartridges. They were called "Toner Phoners". They would claim that they were refurbished and held 50% more toner than new ones from the factory. You get them and they were empty.

On the original topic, there are all type of scams out on the Internet. Two ways to tell is if they ask for personal info or passwords, or if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is a scam. For example, banks will never inform you through email that they will suspend your account. There's one that claims the IRS over taxed you, and you can go to this site to claim a refund. The IRS never sends info like this through email.

The ones I laugh about are the ones where they are looking for an "honest" person to help them rip off some dead guys money. Why would an "honest" person do something like that?

[subtearanean]

The ones I laugh about are the ones where they are looking for an "honest" person to help them rip off some dead guys money. Why would an "honest" person do something like that?

Yeah, but, this guy seems so sincere. I'm gonna go for it.........

http://www.zefrank.com/request/

[surveytech]

I've gotten messages from an eBay customer I never heard of, asking how to pay for something they claim they bought from me. These came several weeks apart. I had no way to reply that they didn't buy from me, so I reported it to eBay. Haven't gotten another one lately.

I get several of those daily. More Phishing.......just ignore them.

[angib]

Dammit! Are you guys trying to tell me that I haven't won the Euro Millions lottery like I heard last week? I have been relying on getting that money to tide me over until the nice gentleman in Nigeria lets me keep the quarter of his $20 million deposit that he's promised me.

And there is no Santa Claus too, you say?

Andrew
(I have trouble not writing 'Sanity Clause' - the Marx brothers were good.)

[madjack]

Darn Andrew...I've been told I won the Spanish Lottery and that gentleman in Nigeria promised me I was the only one he was contacting...imagine that...some people can be such liars...I sure hope that check from Bill Gates gets here soon....
madjack

[tonyj]

And there is no Santa Claus too, you say?

Andrew
(I have trouble not writing 'Sanity Clause' - the Marx brothers were good.)

Andrew, unless you have specific info on the "no Santa Claus," please don't spread scary rumours. I know he exists--I see him pestering children at the shopping malls every year starting in October. Otherwise, you'll start people thinking there isn't a tooth fairy, Easter bunny, Social Security retirement income, or Great Pumpkin. Oops! Scratch the Social Security retirement income. No one believes in that one anymore.

[PapaJ]

Geez.....I'm starting to think this whole internet thingy is a wild and dangerous place.

What about all those emails that say they can make my, well, you know, that thing bigger? Do those work? Tom? Mike? Any experience with that?

Or is this a question I should be directing towards Ira?

I'm really starting to get upset because I get several e-mails a day that insinuate my thingy is too little or too soft, sheesh!