Anyone else get this SPAM?
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Joined: Sep 2006
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From: Montana & Arkansas
RE: Anyone else get this SPAM?
Justifiable Homicide. Small fine and parole.
ORIGINAL: Citoriplus
I get them on my home machine all the time. For a while I was forwarding them to the FBI, but I just don't bother any more.
One word of caution, NEVER, EVER click on any of the links they have in them.
Believe me you WILL regret it, I promise. Half of them are just a bogus way to install some form of spyware or virus.
The other half seem to take yo to a bogus spyware site that infects your machine and redirects nearly everything you do go to them. Then they tell you that your machine is infected and for $49.95 they can kill the virus, problem is that its their software that's the actual virus, and they never remove that.
I get them on my home machine all the time. For a while I was forwarding them to the FBI, but I just don't bother any more.
One word of caution, NEVER, EVER click on any of the links they have in them.
Believe me you WILL regret it, I promise. Half of them are just a bogus way to install some form of spyware or virus.
The other half seem to take yo to a bogus spyware site that infects your machine and redirects nearly everything you do go to them. Then they tell you that your machine is infected and for $49.95 they can kill the virus, problem is that its their software that's the actual virus, and they never remove that.
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Joined: Apr 2005
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From: Hudson Valley- NY
RE: Anyone else get this SPAM?
I haven't gotten this particular one but have personally gotten the same type via e-mail and blind fax to the office where I work. It's all BS, delete it or respond if you have the time, but it is likely a bad address anyway. What's even more bizarre is the tele-relay calls I've gotten to a couple of small ads I've run in my local newspaper selling an old laptop computer. I get a call from a relay party, usually in Phoenix, AZ who tells me he has a person trying to contact me via a phone/computer hook up from somewhere else. This is not unusual if it is a TTD connection used by the deaf, but I've gotten two from a caller in Nigeria who was interested in buying my laptop.
Now right after I thought WTF does someone in Nigeria want with a $400.00 laptop, the call was terminated by me since it was obviously a full blown scam. Who in their right mind would send bank account information, social security numbers, or even a laptop computer to someone who contacts you from a foreign country via a blind fax, e-mail or in response to a small ad in a Podunkian newspaper like my local rag.
There must be quite a few since these things continue to pop up all the time.
Now right after I thought WTF does someone in Nigeria want with a $400.00 laptop, the call was terminated by me since it was obviously a full blown scam. Who in their right mind would send bank account information, social security numbers, or even a laptop computer to someone who contacts you from a foreign country via a blind fax, e-mail or in response to a small ad in a Podunkian newspaper like my local rag.
There must be quite a few since these things continue to pop up all the time.
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From: Rochester, NY
RE: Anyone else get this SPAM?
Hmmmm, would duct taping their mouths over my Customs exhaust pipes be considered "cruel and unusual punishment", or "use of excessive force?"
ORIGINAL: Big Sled
Justifiable Homicide. Small fine and parole.
Justifiable Homicide. Small fine and parole.
ORIGINAL: Citoriplus
I get them on my home machine all the time. For a while I was forwarding them to the FBI, but I just don't bother any more.
One word of caution, NEVER, EVER click on any of the links they have in them.
Believe me you WILL regret it, I promise. Half of them are just a bogus way to install some form of spyware or virus.
The other half seem to take yo to a bogus spyware site that infects your machine and redirects nearly everything you do go to them. Then they tell you that your machine is infected and for $49.95 they can kill the virus, problem is that its their software that's the actual virus, and they never remove that.
I get them on my home machine all the time. For a while I was forwarding them to the FBI, but I just don't bother any more.
One word of caution, NEVER, EVER click on any of the links they have in them.
Believe me you WILL regret it, I promise. Half of them are just a bogus way to install some form of spyware or virus.
The other half seem to take yo to a bogus spyware site that infects your machine and redirects nearly everything you do go to them. Then they tell you that your machine is infected and for $49.95 they can kill the virus, problem is that its their software that's the actual virus, and they never remove that.
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Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 25,962
Likes: 9,763
From: Montana & Arkansas
RE: Anyone else get this SPAM?
Oughta be OK... that's acceptable for sick animals[&:]
ORIGINAL: Citoriplus
Hmmmm, would duct taping their mouths over my Customs exhaust pipes be considered "cruel and unusual punishment", or "use of excessive force?"
Hmmmm, would duct taping their mouths over my Customs exhaust pipes be considered "cruel and unusual punishment", or "use of excessive force?"
ORIGINAL: Big Sled
Justifiable Homicide. Small fine and parole.
Justifiable Homicide. Small fine and parole.
ORIGINAL: Citoriplus
I get them on my home machine all the time. For a while I was forwarding them to the FBI, but I just don't bother any more.
One word of caution, NEVER, EVER click on any of the links they have in them.
Believe me you WILL regret it, I promise. Half of them are just a bogus way to install some form of spyware or virus.
The other half seem to take yo to a bogus spyware site that infects your machine and redirects nearly everything you do go to them. Then they tell you that your machine is infected and for $49.95 they can kill the virus, problem is that its their software that's the actual virus, and they never remove that.
I get them on my home machine all the time. For a while I was forwarding them to the FBI, but I just don't bother any more.
One word of caution, NEVER, EVER click on any of the links they have in them.
Believe me you WILL regret it, I promise. Half of them are just a bogus way to install some form of spyware or virus.
The other half seem to take yo to a bogus spyware site that infects your machine and redirects nearly everything you do go to them. Then they tell you that your machine is infected and for $49.95 they can kill the virus, problem is that its their software that's the actual virus, and they never remove that.
May our Moderator Rest in Peace
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 11,386
Likes: 35
From: Rochester, NY
RE: Anyone else get this SPAM?
The sad part is that they have to be working on some people, otherwise they would vanish faster than a cold beer in the desert.
ORIGINAL: DGlide04
There must be quite a few since these things continue to pop up all the time.
There must be quite a few since these things continue to pop up all the time.
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