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| 11-01-11 03:41pm - 4800 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
New way to make money off Spam? I got just a new email in my inbox. Haven't seen one like it before. Maybe they took a note from graymane's Officer Ron Owen to think up this approach. There are a few things about the email that are suspicious: 1). The email is dated November 1, 2011. But the offense (driving too fast) was supposed to take place November 2, 2011. So I haven't committed the offense yet. 2). The offense supposedly will happen in New York state. I haven't been in New York in around 20 years. .................. .................. UNIFORM TRAFFIC TICKET (ID:6732) 1 FROM: New York State Department of Motor Vehicles TO: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tuesday, November 1, 2011 11:53 AM New York State — Department of Motor Vehicles UNIFORM TRAFFIC TICKET (ID:30756), POLICE AGENCY NEW YORK STATE POLICE Local Police Code 568 THE PERSON DESCRIBED ABOVE IS CHARGED AS FOLLOWS Time: 7:25 AM Date of Offense: 07/02/2011 IN VIOLATION OF NYS V AND T LAW 717 Description of Violation SPEED OVER 55 ZONE TO PLEAD, PRINT OUT THE ENCLOSED TICKET AND SEND IT TO TOWN COURT, CHATAM HALL., PO BOX 117 Attachments Download All | |
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| 11-01-11 04:55pm - 4800 days | #2 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
It is well past time that ISPs & or the Police should really take more action on fraud / fishing attempts like this. Surely if that had arrived as a letter to you, & you informed the authorities they would have to take action? Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 11-01-11 05:08pm - 4800 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There are so many fraud/fishings attempts that I don't believe the ISPs and Police pay much attention to them. It would take a huge amount of time to hunt down the people who are behind them. And the laws to punish them for this are not really very specific, especially when you realize a lot of the spammers are out of state or, more commonly, out of the country. I read many years ago that some spammer, located in Nigeria, I think, said that if the people are stupid enough to fall for his spam, they deserved to be taken. And he also said the people who fall for his spam are also rich enough that they could afford to lose some cash. It can be big business, or at least lucrative, to steal from your fellow man. The article on this spammer described him at a teenager who wore gold bracelets on his wrists. So I guess he was making good money off his spam/fraud/whatever you call it. | |
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| 11-02-11 06:07pm - 4799 days | #4 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster  Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
The funny scam I saw this year was am e-mail claiming to be from the Nigerian government, offering to pay compensation to those who had been scammed. All they have to do is send their identification and bank details... I guess the idea was if someone was daft enough to get scammed once, then they are more likely to fall for it again. I've had several copies of that New York speeding ticket. The scammers have been getting more and more adept at making themselves untraceable, and of course if they are based in a country which does not subscribe to international laws, or has extradition treaties with other countries, then what can authorities in the US or UK etc. actually do about it? Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 11-03-11 05:58am - 4798 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I think it's really responsible the Nigerian government is willing to pay compensation to those who have been scammed. Where's the email address that I'm supposed to use to send my identification and bank details to? Is it to the Nigerian embassy? I've always wanted to send an email to some official embassy.    | |
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| 11-03-11 06:52am - 4798 days | #6 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I never got those. Mine always came from a exiled prince or the family of a loyal general who wants to share all his wealth with some deserving soul like me. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-03-11 11:14am - 4798 days | #7 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I keep getting emails from Twitter and Facebook, notifying me that there are messages I haven't responded to. Except that I'm not a member of Facebook or Twitter. Those of you who are might think twice before you click on any of the links provided in the email. | |
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| 11-03-11 01:01pm - 4798 days | #8 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I've had so many long, lost relatives die and leave me several million that I'll be set for life once I've collected on them all.  Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 11-03-11 04:36pm - 4798 days | #9 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Just send me your credit card number and social and i'll get started on that for you LOL Since 2007 | |
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| 11-03-11 05:05pm - 4798 days | #10 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Ah, mail fraud in cyberspace. Kinda ironic, dontcha think? I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 11-03-11 06:33pm - 4798 days | #11 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I've also started getting those. I always delete them without reading what it says. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-04-11 12:25pm - 4797 days | #12 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Part of the problem of social networking sites, particularly Facebook, is that they want you using them a lot, and if you don't then they're are going to bother/remind you that you haven't logged on in a while. I signed up for a Facebook account a few years back, but haven't done anything with it beyond opening it and they periodically send e-mails reminding me of pending friends and that I haven't logged on recently. With sites like Facebook around, which has a constantly changing privacy policy, it's a wonder people care about keeping anything to themselves, much less away from a company with an unnerving amount of your and your friends' personal information.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 11-05-11 10:18am - 4796 days | #13 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Yes, they probably do send emails to slumbering members but I am not a member of Twitter or Facebook. Yesterday, I got the same sort of reminder from AOL! AOL??? I thought they were long gone. In any case, I've never done business with AOL either. Somebody has something unpleasant hidden in those embedded links, I am sure. I know one thing, I'll never find out what it is.  | |
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