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06-08-2004, 02:47 PM
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Osiris - Egyptian God of the Underworld
 Join Date: May 22, 2001
Location: Sherwoodpark,Alberta,Canada
Age: 51
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So many scams out there. Is there a site that lists such scams as this?? If not I think it would be a great to have one.
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06-08-2004, 03:16 PM
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Ironworks Moderator
 Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Scotland
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06-08-2004, 03:20 PM
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Silver Dragon
   Join Date: July 29, 2003
Location: Shrewsbury, England
Age: 33
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Yep, it's teeming with spelling and grammar mistakes. Fake.
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06-08-2004, 05:07 PM
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Jack Burton
 Join Date: May 15, 2001
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 39
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Scam. Would a Paypal email be written in crappy English? No. On top of that, Paypal has mentioned they would never send emails without someone's name at the heading. They won't use "Dear Paypal User".
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06-08-2004, 07:26 PM
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Takhisis Follower
 Join Date: April 30, 2001
Location: szép Magyarország (well not right now)
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LOL I scanned it so quickly the first time that I didn't even notice the terrible grammar and use of non-existant words
of course it's damn fake!And Andrewas is correct, I've seen that technique before, it's even been on some show on TV warning people. The actual address it goes to is not the one shown in the address bar. |
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06-08-2004, 11:23 PM
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40th Level Warrior
 Join Date: October 29, 2001
Location: Western Wilds of Michigan
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Whenever in doubt, forward a copy of the email to "webmaster@domain.com" or "abuse@domain.com" to ask them to confirm it. Who better than the company themself to confirm if it's legit?
Note: Don't just click on a response link in the email. That probably points to somewhere else. A little skepticism never hurt. And it probably saved a lot of money...
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06-09-2004, 02:19 AM
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Jack Burton
Join Date: July 19, 2003
Location: an expat living in France
Age: 38
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Thanks for your help!
EDIT: I just forwarded the message to spoof@paypal.com Let's see what they make of it. [ 06-09-2004, 02:55 AM: Message edited by: dplax ] |
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06-09-2004, 03:49 AM
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The Magister
 Join Date: March 19, 2004
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Age: 54
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I have also received similar scams for Ebay and account information for CitiBank. Although this one is pretty easy to identify as a scam, I feel sorry for folks who don't have as much exposure to this sort of thing and fall for it.
It is soooo slimy to be a predator of senior citizens and other people who often don't have a lot of experience with being cynical of email origins. I just want to find these assholes and get righteously violent with them.
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06-09-2004, 06:03 AM
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40th Level Warrior
Join Date: March 24, 2002
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It's a scam. even I notice the bad english. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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06-10-2004, 01:54 AM
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Baaz Draconian
 Join Date: May 24, 2004
Location: Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Age: 35
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Scam scam scam scam, scam scam scam scam, scammity scaaam
I can tell because the word "deletation" is not a word ....it should be "deletion" [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img]
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