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4th November 2009, 04:11 PM
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Re: Another type of scam
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Me too!!!!!! But don't tell anyone ...
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HA! same here, the notification is from " Yahoo Awards Center" yet the email given is a @ gmail.com domain, these guys should get their emails straight! 
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5th November 2009, 05:04 AM
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Re: Another type of scam
I love the low budget & quite frankly atrocious presentation of their notification letters - I could knock something more convincing in 5 minutes flat.....
Hmmm.... that gives me an idea...
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9th November 2009, 04:17 PM
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Re: Another type of scam
I get that type of email all the time as well. I like to do a Whois IP lookup in the originating IP address.
I just recieved one today that had "Every Word Started With A Capital Letter". I didn't even read it. Subject line "Re: Your Payment.
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9th November 2009, 07:52 PM
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Re: Another type of scam
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Originally Posted by Mauri
I get that type of email all the time as well. I like to do a Whois IP lookup in the originating IP address.
I just recieved one today that had "Every Word Started With A Capital Letter". I didn't even read it. Subject line "Re: Your Payment.
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Sometimes the bad grammar and misspelling is a ploy to lull suckers into thinking they can outsmart some third world rube - that's like thinking you can beat Michael Jordan one-on-one in basketball just because he's retired from active playing.
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9th November 2009, 09:32 PM
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Re: Another type of scam
It used to be dead easy to pick out the scams and phishing emails, but it's getting a lot harder.
But some of them are now so damned good - way beyond misspelling and poor grammar - that they're almost indistinguishable from the real thing. I've had at least two emails, each purporting to be from a large and well-known bank, which had the logo, the language and even sounded convincing. And even the email address looked convincing.
Only my iron-clad rules (eg, never, ever click a link from an email) and my ingrained suspicion prevented me from taking it seriously. And after I'd gone and checked the full email header, I could then see the supposed email address was bogus and that it wasn't from the bank at all.
But very, very, very good. I bet they caught out some people. In fact, I'm sure of it. Where there's $$ to be made, inventive brains will seek to make it.
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