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Main Area => Odds n Ends => Topic started by: Cal Price on November 21, 2005, 08:55:47 AM

Title: Another Scam Warning.
Post by: Cal Price on November 21, 2005, 08:55:47 AM
In today's batch of e-mail at home I got a mail from an alledged company with a double-barreled name. Honda-Something-or-other.

Did I want a job, loadsa money?  one and a half hours a week, all I need is a phone, computer and a bank account to help them move money from dealerships etc in South America, Eastern Europe, in fact all the usual suspects. There was a rash of these about three or four years back, usually from Nigeria and involvolg helping to get a "Oil rich tribal Chief's" money out of the country. I am sure money moved through accounts but not quite in the manner the victims expected.

It seems that these may now be being tailored to peoples known interests etc. I am sure no-one on this board would be dim enough to fall for it but just in case.
Title: Another Scam Warning.
Post by: scratch on November 21, 2005, 03:21:25 PM
Thanks.
Title: Another Scam Warning.
Post by: Jake D on November 21, 2005, 03:25:58 PM
I just got one that was supposedly from the FBI suggesting I had been visiting illegal websites.  It urged me to fill out a questionaire and had a legit FBI phone number and address on it.  

I couldn't get through on the phone number so I called the local FBI office.  They said it is BS and that they had gotten lot of calls.  She suggested I ignore it and delete it or forward it to the local office.  I forwarded it to the local office.

Scary as hell!
Title: Another Scam Warning.
Post by: Jake D on November 21, 2005, 03:41:30 PM
Update.

I looked up this scam on www.snopes.com and the attachment to the fake FBI e-mail is really the Sober K virus.

Watch your 6!
Title: Another Scam Warning.
Post by: yamahonkawazuki on November 22, 2005, 01:11:34 AM
damn man, appreciate that, he;ll i wish i could catch these losers so i could Buddha Loves You slap them with srinath or one of his bikes  :roll: jk srinath i know you can sense my hostility here  :lol:
Title: Another Scam Warning.
Post by: Jake D on November 22, 2005, 10:37:38 AM
Slap them in the face with Srinath's thong, thong, thong, thong. . .thong.

Thong song.