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[Welung666]

Was it addressed personally though?

[Vamps]

Was it addressed personally though?

No, I checked it and the genuine one was addressed to my name. I was suspicious, but I can understand how people can be completely taken in by some of the requests sent, seemingly quite genuine.

[Nickbat]

Talking of scams, I received this great email the other day:

YOURKSHIRE WORLD INC.
166 felthamn road,Unit 16
Ashford/London/TW15 1YQ
United Kingdom
Registration number: 3699677
VAT registration number: GB832 6732
Tell:+44 70457 09491
Email: yourkshireca@yahoo.com.hk


Dear Sir/Madam,

I represent Yourkshire Inc. Ltd based in the UK. My company exports finished leather products and other goods/services for world trade. Would you like to work online from home and get paid weekly?

Yourkshire Inc needs a Book-Keeper in the United states,United Kingdom, Canada, South America, Asia, Mexico, Australia and parts of Europe. So I want to know if you will like to work from home and get paid for the services, blah, blah.
...
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Tommy Smith
YOURKSHIRE WORLD INC.
+44 70457 09491

 

Apart from the fact that Tommy can't spell Yorkshire, or Feltham for that matter, gives a false VAT number & company registration number...and lives in Hong Kong, it seems a great opportunity to me!!

Funny thing is, you can't report this stuff to the police online. I wouldn't bother to phone them and it would be a hassle to queue up at the local nick, so Tommy is free to carry on. No use calling trading standards as this is clearly an international scam.

[KillerWatt]

is this a common one?

Just as common as the old "you need to login to your bank account and confirm a few things because we detected fraud on your account"

I have had three allegedly from paypal, contacted them and was told iffy and asked me to send to paypal, which I did with the oters. Paypal confirmed that they were phishing emails.

What is meant by checking headers?

As in originating email address.

OK this is going to sound silly but where is this?

Ignore the "from" field in the e-mail, anybody can put anything they want in there.

How you check the headers depends on your mail client, but in Outlook you simply right click on the message and select "Message Options" from the context menu.

[Vamps]

is this a common one?

Just as common as the old "you need to login to your bank account and confirm a few things because we detected fraud on your account"

I have had three allegedly from paypal, contacted them and was told iffy and asked me to send to paypal, which I did with the oters. Paypal confirmed that they were phishing emails.

What is meant by checking headers?

As in originating email address.

OK this is going to sound silly but where is this?

Ignore the "from" field in the e-mail, anybody can put anything they want in there.

How you check the headers depends on your mail client, but in Outlook you simply right click on the message and select "Message Options" from the context menu.

What about yahoo, as I tried that and did not get a message option :-/

[KillerWatt]

is this a common one?

Just as common as the old "you need to login to your bank account and confirm a few things because we detected fraud on your account"

I have had three allegedly from paypal, contacted them and was told iffy and asked me to send to paypal, which I did with the oters. Paypal confirmed that they were phishing emails.

What is meant by checking headers?

As in originating email address.

OK this is going to sound silly but where is this?

Ignore the "from" field in the e-mail, anybody can put anything they want in there.

How you check the headers depends on your mail client, but in Outlook you simply right click on the message and select "Message Options" from the context menu.

What about yahoo, as I tried that and did not get a message option :-/

Right click on the message and select "View full headers"

[Vamps]

is this a common one?

Just as common as the old "you need to login to your bank account and confirm a few things because we detected fraud on your account"

I have had three allegedly from paypal, contacted them and was told iffy and asked me to send to paypal, which I did with the oters. Paypal confirmed that they were phishing emails.

What is meant by checking headers?

As in originating email address.

OK this is going to sound silly but where is this?

Ignore the "from" field in the e-mail, anybody can put anything they want in there.

How you check the headers depends on your mail client, but in Outlook you simply right click on the message and select "Message Options" from the context menu.

What about yahoo, as I tried that and did not get a message option :-/

Right click on the message and select "View full headers"

Found a 'view source' which simply showed dozens of lines of computer speak which it would not let me post on here, I could copy and paste but not post

[dbug]

Below headers from a "spam" email sent to me (I'm not John by the way) - my email addy starred out.


Return-path: <mail@effort3.co.uk>
Envelope-to: ******************
Delivery-date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:09:54 +0100
Received: from [212.159.7.34] (helo=mx.ptn-ipin02.plus.net)
           by fhw-inmx12.plus.net with esmtp (PlusNet MXCore v2.00) id 1MnbXO-0000x7-7B
           for *************; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:09:54 +0100
Authentication-Results: mx.ptn-ipin02.plus.net; dkim=neutral (message not signed) header.i=none
Received-SPF: None identity=pra; client-ip=66.235.180.227;
  receiver=mx.ptn-ipin02.plus.net;
  envelope-from="mail@effort3.co.uk";
  x-sender="mail@effort3.co.uk";
  x-conformance=sidf_compatible
Received-SPF: None identity=mailfrom; client-ip=66.235.180.227;
  receiver=mx.ptn-ipin02.plus.net;
  envelope-from="mail@effort3.co.uk";
  x-sender="mail@effort3.co.uk";
  x-conformance=sidf_compatible
Received-SPF: None identity=helo; client-ip=66.235.180.227;
  receiver=mx.ptn-ipin02.plus.net;
  envelope-from="mail@effort3.co.uk";
  x-sender="postmaster@effort3.co.uk";
  x-conformance=sidf_compatible
X-SBRS: 0.5
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqCkAL5nr0pC67TjaWdsb2JhbACBMiFXIwQFhg6RRIEjDQsKBRJVxBiEFwU
X-BV-Spam-Flag: Yes
X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="5300,2777,5742"; a="174566059"
X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,391,1249254000";
  d="scan'208,217";a="174566059"
Received: from unlim-miles2.co.uk (HELO effort3.co.uk) ([66.235.180.227])
  by mx.ptn-ipin02.plus.net with ESMTP; 15 Sep 2009 18:09:53 +0100
Reply-To: neopost@firestormltd.co.uk
From: "Neopost" <mail@effort3.co.uk>
To: *****************
Date: 15 Sep 2009 18:09:54 +0100
Message-ID: <20090915180953.55A8F09CE8171AB7@effort3.co.uk>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
          charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-PN-Virus-Filtered: by PlusNet MXCore (v5.00)
X-PN-Spam-Filtered: by PlusNet MXCore (v5.00)


Subject: Re: last email


John, did you get this?

Best,
Dan
nothwestsales@neopost.co.uk

[Vamps]

Tried again and got thi message from the forum;

You tried to use scripting in the url or form input, which is not allowed!

Never mind, just need to keep alert...

[Vamps]

Had 2 more iffy emails, allegedly from paypal, sent them straight to paypal for confirmation and noted that the content did not address me by name....

[CaptainZok]

Had 2 more iffy emails, allegedly from paypal, sent them straight to paypal for confirmation and noted that the content did not address me by name....

Oops sorry did I forget that again.
Note to self address them Dear Vamps in future.
P.S.You still haven't sent me my contact in Nigeria the £5000 for the documents to release the $110000000 eleven million us dollars he has in trust for you yet.

[Vamps]

Had 2 more iffy emails, allegedly from paypal, sent them straight to paypal for confirmation and noted that the content did not address me by name....

Oops sorry did I forget that again.
Note to self address them Dear Vamps in future.
P.S.You still haven't sent me my contact in Nigeria the £5000 for the documents to release the $110000000 eleven million us dollars he has in trust for you yet.

I did  and you signed the receipt for delivery, so where is my money ? was just thinking I was going to have to send the boys around.....

[CaptainZok]

Had 2 more iffy emails, allegedly from paypal, sent them straight to paypal for confirmation and noted that the content did not address me by name....

Oops sorry did I forget that again.
Note to self address them Dear Vamps in future.
P.S.You still haven't sent me my contact in Nigeria the £5000 for the documents to release the $110000000 eleven million us dollars he has in trust for you yet.

I did  and you signed the receipt for delivery, so where is my money ? was just thinking I was going to have to send the boys around.....

The post from Nigeria is terrible mate. Just keep waiting I'm sure it will turn up.

[Vamps]

Had 2 more iffy emails, allegedly from paypal, sent them straight to paypal for confirmation and noted that the content did not address me by name....

Oops sorry did I forget that again.
Note to self address them Dear Vamps in future.
P.S.You still haven't sent me my contact in Nigeria the £5000 for the documents to release the $110000000 eleven million us dollars he has in trust for you yet.

I did  and you signed the receipt for delivery, so where is my money ? was just thinking I was going to have to send the boys around.....

The post from Nigeria is terrible mate. Just keep waiting I'm sure it will turn up.

And Daz and Pete were poised to pounce....

[CaptainZok]

Had 2 more iffy emails, allegedly from paypal, sent them straight to paypal for confirmation and noted that the content did not address me by name....

Oops sorry did I forget that again.
Note to self address them Dear Vamps in future.
P.S.You still haven't sent me my contact in Nigeria the £5000 for the documents to release the $110000000 eleven million us dollars he has in trust for you yet.

I did  and you signed the receipt for delivery, so where is my money ? was just thinking I was going to have to send the boys around.....

The post from Nigeria is terrible mate. Just keep waiting I'm sure it will turn up.

And Daz and Pete were poised to pounce....

I have it on good authority that the pink one is on the p*ss with his new caledonian paramour. Probably plotting to get me in more trouble.