WARNING TO EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!
10-20-2011, 11:11 AM
#22
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Wine Country-Southern California
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I especially do not like the ones that are made to look like they are coming from your bank and that you need to reverify your information otherwise your accout will be put on hold or closed.....and it looks real.
10-20-2011, 11:17 AM
#23
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 2,376
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
I wouldn't even think to send money requested in an email even if it had my kids names on it. By the way, I'm getting scam pms here ! The latest one if from Mrs. Joy Gardner wanting to give me millions of dollars to use for good of all. ????
10-20-2011, 12:15 PM
#24
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1,098
Few months back I had my email hacked thru Craigs list. I had to change all my information and lost so many of my favorites. I am slowly finding some of them but it is hard to remember all of them. For about a month all that I got for email was the message board.
10-20-2011, 02:59 PM
#25
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: North Dakota
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Everyone needs to remember that your banks , and anything else that needs personal info will send you letters. they do not send emails or phone calls. I just got a letter from my bank about changing acct info. Wehn I had ordered my last checks she said that they were changing to a new bank, so we would be getting updated info and so the letter came and let me know what to do when the change comes. EBAY warns everyone not to go outside their website to do business for the simple reason too many people have too much time to think up scams and cause people grief.
10-20-2011, 03:07 PM
#26
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: An Ocean Shore
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We got an email last year from HI...to my husband from a friend of his asking for money to fly home because his mom had died. But.. my hub knew his friend was teaching and it seemed like an ODD time for him to be traveling. So.. he called him at home and sure as heck.. HE WAS HOME.
What an eerie feeling. We had JUST seen a deal on the news about these types of scams... and I am SO GLAD WE DID.
Always appreciative of the warnings and/or reminders.
What an eerie feeling. We had JUST seen a deal on the news about these types of scams... and I am SO GLAD WE DID.
Always appreciative of the warnings and/or reminders.
10-21-2011, 03:44 AM
#28
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Georgia
Posts: 253
That same situation happened to me. I knew my relative wasn't in England because I had just talked to her. Someone got into her email some how. She actually had to change her email address. I wasn't the only one that got that same email.
10-21-2011, 04:17 AM
#29
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Bear Lake, michigan
Posts: 82
I have been there what a mess to get that straight even was shut out of my MSN account so had to get a new e address then go to all my sites and address book to correct with new e address I did hear from a lot of friends and family that I haven't heard from in a while asking if I was o.k. First I say you know me right I DON'T FLY
10-21-2011, 05:01 AM
#30
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Vermont
Posts: 6,978
Originally Posted by clem55
My hubby just got scammed big time on Craigslist.
The ad and everything in it, pictures info, were taken from a ligit add on Ebay. Papers even had the Ebay and Paysafe logos. The catch was the money was to go through Western Union. Well, he thought it all looked right, made copies of everything, and then sent the money. Well they got the money, he got nothing. I kept telling him that going through WU didnt sound right for Ebay, but of course, his answer was " give me a little credit for protecting myself". It was a very expensive lesson, but I think he learned a lesson. And oh! It felt GOOD to be the smart one!! ,LOL
The ad and everything in it, pictures info, were taken from a ligit add on Ebay. Papers even had the Ebay and Paysafe logos. The catch was the money was to go through Western Union. Well, he thought it all looked right, made copies of everything, and then sent the money. Well they got the money, he got nothing. I kept telling him that going through WU didnt sound right for Ebay, but of course, his answer was " give me a little credit for protecting myself". It was a very expensive lesson, but I think he learned a lesson. And oh! It felt GOOD to be the smart one!! ,LOL
just about anytime it involves Western Union, it is a scam. You might as well take dollar bills and throw them off a bridge. You can never get your money back. That is why scammers use it.
I just got two about traffic tickets from NY state police, hmmmm, wonder how they got my email?
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