Forum: Spam, Scam & Phishing

Of late I have been recieving a lot of emails on Yahoo account saying that I have won an emailed based lottery ..so far to date I have "won" well over 2 Million quid :D if only this was true :( .. just another scam trying to get my personel info ... most emails have reply address as hotmail ...so...

Just a thought, but for the last couple of days I have actually been receiving more actual emails than my ISP filtered out into my spam folder.

I have today received a spam message reportedly from Halifax Plc saying that there had been unauthorised use of customers online accounts. They say that they are doing a security check on all of their customers (I do not nor ever have had a Halifax account) and asking me to click on the link to...

Some organisations have an "Abuse" or a "Spoof" mailbox for reporting online scams. If you see something that may be a new variant, but don't know where to report it, take a look at http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk (They won't acknowledge your report unless you specifically request it,...

My website has pageload counters on most pages (Courtesy of Statcounter.com) and the SiteSearch facility provided by FreeFind.com is also available from most pages. One facility of Statcounter gives details of searches made on or via the site, and FreeFind provides monthly and weekly reports of...

For the last two months I've been receiving multiple spam messages with a yahoo address daily. It looks like a jerk is going through the alphabet with these annoying e mails.I wish he/she would get a life!! Dorothy

Apparently this is genuine and not a spoof: 'Yet another scam to be aware of which has been brought to the attention of the NAEA by the Police. A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and...

Has anyone else received one of these today??? Dear one I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously. I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile that speaks good

One thing I hate is when someone sends me forwarded emails, particularly those which have been forwarded three times already! |rant| Apart from the fact that you have to keep on clicking to get to the end of them, which is usually a joke or something else I don't want ..... they also 'show'...

Since Christmas weekend, my ISP (Paradise) has been jammed, they are processing some 250million (!) emails. A company spokesman has said that on average about 60% of emails through their system is spam. NZ-source traffic seems to be coming through OK, but nothing at all from overseas, so if you...

I suppose Diane has already started the ball rolling with her thread about E-mails with virus warnings but I thought a thread specifically about hoaxes would be useful here are some sites which uncover hoaxes http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/default.asp ...

Another thing I get very annoyed with, is when people send me emails warning me of viruses! A total waste of time in my opinion which also 'clutters up the net' ...... before they send them, why don't they check first to see if they're real or hoaxes at this site: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/