Best Spam Email Yet...

Selectamatic

Member

Location

North Wales

• Feb 3, 2017

• #1

Came home tonight, checked emails, saw from a Paypal invoice email that I had paid £49.99 from my Paypal account to Groupon.

Not some cheapo copy with spelling mistakes, this was the proper thing.

Checked my Paypal balance, no sign of the payment, everything as I thought it should be...

Called Groupon, telling them it was nowt to do with me, someone must have hacked my account, they will look into it

Called Paypal, who after being put on hold for what seemed like an age, was confirmed to me that this was a spam email and should not be worried about.

Going to keep it for a few days, just in case, but it seems it's a load of bull, done by someone who definitely knows what they are doing.

These buggers are getting more clever.

And I'e had a falling out with the Mrs because of it.

strokers.

 

Selectamatic

Member

Location

North Wales

• Feb 3, 2017

• #2

And I did not type Strokers.

 

Wellytrack

Member

• Feb 3, 2017

• #3

Yep, low life A holes to be sure.

However and perhaps even more cruelly those really poorly spelt and laid out spam's you mention are deliberately shoddy - the rationale being those who don't notice the poor spelling are also much more likely to take the bait and fall for it..

Fudgers.

 

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phillipe

Member

• Feb 3, 2017

• #4

had a few like that,a couple of weeks ago i spent a little time unsubscribing from companys email lists,all those type of scam emails have stopped

 

Pheasant Surprise

Member

Location

Woodbridge, Suffolk

• Feb 5, 2017

• #5

A regular daily occurrence for most of us I'm afraid. Most get caught by either ISP spam filter/email spam filter but they still get through.

Fake invoices dressed up as compressed PDF files (.pdf.jar) files seem to be the latest packaged nasty that land in my account.

Just delete and move on.

 

llamedos

New Member

• Feb 5, 2017

• #6

My laptop must do some miles when I am asleep, because the admin help section here dont half clock up some parking/speeding fines around the country, is a laptop a mobile device

 

phil t

Member

Location

york

• Feb 5, 2017

• #7

So if no money had gone out what have they gained

 

Pheasant Surprise

Member

Location

Woodbridge, Suffolk

• Feb 5, 2017

• #8

phil t said:

So if no money had gone out what have they gained

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1. If it's attachment carrying malware, potentially the ability to log your keystrokes and hack your bank accounts.

2. It's a confidence trick and they fool people into thinking it's a real invoice. You'd be surprised how many get caught out. Not all "mom and pop" types as the yanks say either.

 

phil t

Member

Location

york

• Feb 5, 2017

• #9

Ah righto it's frightening what they can do

 

Dave W

Member

Location

chesterfield

• Feb 5, 2017

• #10

phil t said:

So if no money had gone out what have they gained

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I'd guess there will be a link somewhere that reads something like "click here if this invoice is incorrect"
You'll the get sent to a fake but genuine looking login page where you'll unwittingly give them your login details

 

Barleycorn

Member

BASE UK Member

Location

Hampshire

• Feb 5, 2017

• #11

I love to fill in my log in details with plenty of Fs and Bs, but I expect it is all run by a computer somewhere.

 

mohammad

New Member

Location

Reading Berkshire and Oxfordshire

• Feb 13, 2017

• #12

I had same kind of email from paypal that 49.99 has been paid out from account and there was an attachment as an invoice, but i did not opened it as I knew that these files has patched virus (infected with Virus). If we try to open these infected files the virus activated into our computer and retrieve all passwords and other information like addresses, email logins and passwords, bank details etc and send to host from where virus is being controlled.
Please note never save driving license or passport in your computer or delete them once you used it like if you have to send it to someone.

 

MarcFloyd

Member

• Feb 19, 2017

• #13

Fake PayPal emails don't have your name - they are addressed to "paypal user" or to your email address. Real ones always have your name.

 

Dry Rot

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Scottish Highlands

• Feb 19, 2017

• #14

Google regularly asks me for my mobile number to "increase security". I have no doubt it is genuine. But I don't have a mobile.......and regularly forget passwords....or the Post It note has dropped off the computer.

After a certain number of incorrect password guesses, Google will ask for a copy of something personal, like a driving licence "to prove you are human and not a scammer". (Even more annoying, Facebook will pop up a number of profile pictures and you have to identify your "friends"). Again, I think this is genuine but I'd much rather they'd just accept that some people don't have a mobile, don't use a mobile, and don't want one! Who would be so stupid as to want my identity anyway?

 

Lazy Sod

Member

Location

Warminster Wiltshire

• Feb 19, 2017

• #15

I had one on the 13th, telling me that they had sent £65 to "LondonGB*WEB".

PayPal ask you to forward any suspicious emails to them ([email protected]) which I did.