Just to make you aware that in the last few minutes I've had an email purporting to be from a member here informing me that he's stuck in Manila without cash and passport and asking for a loan of £2000:- "I really hope you get this fast. I could not inform anyone about our trip, because it was impromptu. we had to be in Manila, Philippines for a program. The program was successful, but our journey has turned sour. we misplaced our wallet and cell phone on our way back to the hotel we lodge in after we went for sight seeing. The wallet contained all the valuables we had. Now, our passport is in custody of the hotel management pending when we make payment. I am sorry if i am inconveniencing you, but i have only very few people to run to now. i will be indeed very grateful if i can get a loan of £2,000 from you. this will enable me sort our hotel bills and get my sorry self back home. I will really appreciate whatever you can afford in assisting me with. I promise to refund it in full as soon as I return. let me know if you can be of any assistance. Please, let me know soonest. Thanks so much.." This is a well-known scam and probably needless to say, should be reported as such and deleted without further action. Definitely don't send any money anywhere! I've no doubt the member concerned is at home or work in the UK, blissfully unaware of this at the moment...
Tell them you'll send them $63,000,000 Ugandan Dollars to help them out! Ask them for their name and details, turn the scenario around and string them along for a few days for the hell of it...... It can be fun! Alec.
Got one! It's a d****d nuisance, happened to me a few months ago, apparently I was advising people how to make thousands of ££££s working from home (no, it wasn't selling Tilley lamps!). Has to be sorted out but you have to assume that everyone realises it is a scam and does nothing.
I got one exactly the same as David's except they wanted £2100. Maybe there's an increase of 100 pounds per email.
Lucky for you it isn't a relative who passed away in Uganda and leaving you with a huge amount of cash. Which off coarse is only available if you donate some cash to get it from the bank....
OK. I just must ask after trying for a long time to guess a suitable word... What's d****d? The normal "strong" words like ****(ing), dick, bugger etc. is pretty easy to directly spot when you people choose to "encrypt" them, but this one was tricky. I had to give up. Thanks
This is an attempt to defraud and as such wants reporting. I have just done this to http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/ which is a Met police department co ordinating internet fraud. ::Neil::
just had the same email,,,if you have a quiet day have a go back at them , go to http://www.419eater.com/
So someone has phished the CPL data base. I've noticed lately a few suspicious looking 'new member' profiles which look like they are generated from a bot of some sort. This is especially so on CCS...
No, I think someone has hacked in Paul's email account and used it to send the emails we've received. I doubt it's anything to do with CPL directly. The proof would be that people in Paul's email address book but not registered here had also received the email. Paul? I got a similar email earlier this year from a friend I see very rarely who lives in Shropshire. So had others in her email address book - that was the only common factor. I'm wary about antagonising these hackers in case they retaliate by hacking into my account. I don't know whether that's possible or not but I didn't think it was worth taking the risk. I simply pressed the AOL 'Report Spam' button and then deleted the email. Time taken - 3 seconds...
If I've interpreted the header correctly then the return address displayed is forged and the fake message was actually sent from surprise surprise a Yahoo web-mail account... Slightly amusing is that in taking out a Yahoo web-mail account in Paul's name they have actually spelt Paul wrong As if it's not bad enough that they think they are fooling anyone half of them have to be as thick as pig s*** which only adds insult to injury. Anyway I've cancelled the cheque so thanks for the heads up...
Well yes, but they must get some people falling for it otherwise it wouldn't be worth doing. You only have to look at those ridiculous chain letters (now chain emails) to see how greedy or gullible some folks are...
