Comments on: Top 5 Current Email Scams You Should Know About

By: Bob3000

Bob3000 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:17:01 +0000

While I share your disdain for Hotmail I think the issue is that Gmail and Yahoo put more care into having a decent spam filter at the mail server level.

By: Unionhawk

Unionhawk — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:27:08 +0000

Rules of e-mail scams:
1. You did not win the lottery
2. Nigerians are NOT offering you a business deal
3. Important bank information that you need to update? do it in person.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:22:09 +0000

At times I wonder why someone would fall for some scams especially the nigerian ones cos apart from the very bad grammar, the stories are too good to be true. And some claim to be the governor of the central bank or the ceo of the bank. If u stop to think for a moment, you’ll see that a person in such a position doesn’t need to go lookin for someone online to help launder the money. I realised that people that fall for such do so cos of greed, no one reaps from where he/she didn’t sow plus I think by now the rest of the world would have gotten wise to the nigerian scams since 90% of them have the same format, (actually the scammers use a template for the scams). As for the person callin down curses on them, they don’t call back cos they know you didn’t fall for it & not cos of what u said, besides an average nigerian that believes in voodoo doesn’t fear a non-african/white man’s voodoo. Lol.
In case you are wondering, am a nigerian and reside in nigeria, and not all of us supports/partakes in these scams.

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:35:42 +0000

I also had them send me checks that looked like legitamate travelers’ checks, which the bank was going to cash or put in my account. However, I called the named travelers’ check company and they said the numbers were bogus.

I then took these bogus, counterfeit checks to the police, called the US Treasury, the Secret Service, the FBI, and everyone I could think of….WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT NOT A SINGLE POLICE AGENCY OR THE FEDS WERE INTERESTED OR GAVE A DAMN….

AND I LEARNED THAT THE BANKS JUST LOVE FOR YOU TO GET SCAMMED AND BOUNCE CHECKS BECAUSE THEY MAKE YOU PAY AND PAY AND PAY FOR OVER DRAFTS WHICH IS ONE WAY THE BANKS MAKE MONEY.

CORRUPTION AND LACK OF CONCERN FOR THE AMERICAN CITIZEN AND OUR SECURITY….IS JUST AS BAD AS NIGERIA….

THAT WAS THE REAL SHOCKER, THE BANKS DON’T CARE, THE FEDS DON’T CARE, THE POLICE DON’T CARE, AND THE IRS DOESN’T CARE. ITS NOW TIME FOR A MAJOR POLITICAL CHANGE IN THIS COUNTRY…AND KICK OBAMA AND ALL THOSE BASTERDS OUT.

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:30:33 +0000

I call them every four letter name in the book….they are almost all from Nigeria…I am extremely graphic and because most of these people believe in VooDoo, I tell them I have put a curse on them and they are going to die or get HIV in 5 days…and I am going to make sure they die a horrible, screaming, hideious death….their fingers and nose are going to fall off, their children are going to die in the next year….they are liars and thieves and everyone knows it…..

My favorite is: You dog f___ing, pig eating, butt f___ing pieces of donkey s__t. You are going to die your d__k is going to fall off and you are going to get HIV….The next time you have sex, your d–k is going to get a disease….you are liars and thieves and Chango is going to kill you in 5 days or give you a horrible disease…all of your children are going to die too. I am the Great Mama Din-Obama-mambo Witch and I have put a curse on you and all your children. Die, Die, Die!!!!!!

I never hear from them again…Hugs, Judy

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:24:35 +0000

In April I became my motherâ€™s representative payee after my fatherâ€™s death in February. (He had been a U.S. civil servant.) Afterward, I received an e-mail supposedly from Robert Mueller, the FBI director, asking for bank information, etc. in order to send me my motherâ€™s first monthly payment. I called the local FBI office and was told that it was fraudulent and was asked if I would report it to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, which I did. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). The Web site is: http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx.
I didnâ€™t receive an answer; I didnâ€™t expect one. But at least I felt I had done something in the right direction. Itâ€™s a little unnerving to think that someone was able to hack into the files of the Office of Personnel Management, but consoling in a way to think that they didnâ€™t get far; after all, they had to ask me for all the really important information.

By: Jack Cola

Jack Cola — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:25:31 +0000

Also you make sure that the link is the same as the text. As some people may say visit http://google.com while it actual goes to http://somescammysiteanddonotclickthis.com/morescams/headed/your/way.htm etc

By: Phaoloo

Phaoloo — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:24:33 +0000

I was almost deceived by a paypal scam and click the link to verify my paupal account. Fortunately, I changed the password right away before the phisher had done it.

I find that Gmail has a great phishing alert feature, so you can trust it and never click on link in your message before reading it 2 or 3 times.

By: Ragter

Ragter — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:59:04 +0000

To be honest, I never got how one could fall for a scam like the Nigerian one, considering how widespread it is. As for the others, I haven’t heard of them, I’ve mostly gotten just the Nigerian scams.

Seems Nigeria’s pretty interested in me though.

By: Dean Sherwin

Dean Sherwin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:04:15 +0000

Indeed, some spam filters are less than useless. But to be honest your best defense is to simply push the ‘delete’ key.