Scam emails

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<p>Be warned there is a new scam email going around. Its title states that you have a bill avaliable at virizon wireless (for a total of around 1k no less). This is a scam. I recived this email today and clicked on it. I do not have virizon wireless. It also likes to dissappear from your email if you click out of it. Do not click the links within it.</p>

<p>Just thought i’d give everyone a heads up. Now its time for me to deep clean my computer.</p>

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<p>Thanks, icedragon.</p>

<p>It seems I have many many friends in Nigeria, myself. Apparently lots of people from there die with no heirs but millions of dollars.</p>

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<p>Just received several emails from my “friends and relatives” they’ve all stranded at either Ireland or Singapore Airport, they all wanted me to send in $500/or $1000.</p>

<p>In addition, some one in Astonia wants to sell me some mineral rights… So, it is.</p>

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<p>Hey, maybe the people I know in Nigeria, know the people that you know in Nigeria. 6 degrees of separation and all that.
LOL!
Gotta laugh or this kind of nonsense will make you crazy.</p>

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<p>most just want to sell me something to make something I dont have bigger.</p>

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<p>^^^^Your kitchen??</p>

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<p>We’ve been getting text messages saying “you have won a $1K gift card from Walmart”. They send you to a website which has bad ratings, so don’t go their either.</p>

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<p>I keep getting emails about a credit applied to my Amazon account.</p>

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<p>icedragon, I got that Verizon scam email yesterday. I offered them my Nigerian contacts. ;)</p>

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<p>I get daily scam emails from numerous bank with titles like “Account warning” “Immediate action required” from Chase, Wells Fargo, TD bank, etc etc.</p>

<p>Now if I really DID have enough money to even HAVE accounts at all these banks…</p>

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<p>It made me laugh, I opened it (clicked nothing inside of it) just to see ya know? I’ve gotten the “i’m stuck overseas and need help” scam as well.</p>

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<p>How you can tell it’s a scam - who minds being stranded at Singapore’s airport? If I had to pick one airport to be stranded at, it would have to be Singapore. Pity I never transit through there, since it’s my hometown.</p>

<p>On the flip side, I’ve gotten several bank account warnings from my bank that were legitimate but which I never saw, because my email filter thought they were scams!</p>

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<p>I must be on some “she likes spam” list because I’ve received all of the above, plus USPS emails about packages I never sent and IRS notices (the IRS doesn’t email people). And I did ignore a valid warning from my actual bank about fraud alert. Then emails from people I know end up in “junk”. Go figure.</p>

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<p>I had a Facebook chat message pop up from a good friend saying she was stuck at Heathrow with no money because her wallet and passport were stolen. I knew she was traveling, but not overseas. I texted her to confirm where she was. Then she closed her FB account because it had been hacked.</p>

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<p>because I know darn well that my friend is working in his office in LA and not traveling. His email was hacked. :)</p>

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<p>I do check my spam folder every day or so to make sure I haven’t missed anything real.</p>

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<p>Are you kidding, VH. The last count of my spam folder in just two of my email accounts have been totaled 10K emails(I have about 20). Worse, one of domains I have was hacked and over 1000 spam emails was sent OUT of my domain per HOUR, as a result, my ISP shut down my domain. I spent 4 hours last night and this morning to find the problem. I have to change passwords on all my ftp accounts… and it will get pretty ugly today…and you want me to check my spam bucket?</p>

<p>Here is the instructions that my ISP suggest to get rid of the problems.</p>

<p><a href=“https://esupport.acenet-inc.net/article/218[/url]”>https://esupport.acenet-inc.net/article/218&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Wow. I get maybe 10 “real” emails a day and maybe 10 spam emails a day. So taking a quick glance at the spam folder isn’t a big deal.</p>

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<p>I got a popup ad saying I have “dangerous viruses on my computer.” It purported to be from Microsoft but of course wasn’t. Don’t click on such things or you WILL have dangerous viruses on your computer.</p>

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<p>You can stop those popups by increase your Browser’s security. For IE, it is in your Tools–>Internet Options section.</p>