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Andrew

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'tis the season for scammers, clearly.
« on: April 29, 2010, 10:08:34 am »
First it was the endless emails from ABSA, et al, about clarifying your details, now I'm being flooded with business proposals from grieving, filthy rich widows and oil salesmen... *sigh*
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Re: 'tis the season for scammers, clearly.
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2010, 10:52:27 am »
I feel for you. It has been "Ned Bank" month here all over again >:( I don't even bank with Tom.

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Re: 'tis the season for scammers, clearly.
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2010, 11:05:35 am »
Quote from: mafioso on April 29, 2010, 10:52:27 am
I feel for you. It has been "Ned Bank" month here all over again >:( I don't even bank with Tom.

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Yeah, well that was what was so funny about the ABSA stuff - I bank with FNB. But now that has quietened down, I now have the next lot coming in. Funny thing is, 'James Cromwell' has been around for several years with his oil business. Clearly the fact that they still use that name must mean they still get fools being duped by the scam.
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Re: 'tis the season for scammers, clearly.
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2010, 07:54:43 pm »
Quote from: AVSA Andrew on April 29, 2010, 10:08:34 am
First it was the endless emails from ABSA, et al, about clarifying your details, now I'm being flooded with business proposals from grieving, filthy rich widows......

Hey! Are you sure those are spoofs? Im in the market for well...er...oomf...  ;D ;D :-\
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Re: 'tis the season for scammers, clearly.
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2010, 12:51:42 am »
Somehow, I can't help but thinking/suspecting these bank spoofs are 'inside' jobs. ie Bank staff leaking bits of their data bases...

Also got one from "SARS" today, offering click here and go there to get a very modest refund of ZAR683-.

The mail nogal 'signed' by one Oupa Magashula.

If one clicks on "File" in Outlook Express after highlighting the mail and then click on options/properties, one can see this Oupa lives in .it (Italy). Here too, I suspect an inside job by idle SARS? staff.

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Re: 'tis the season for scammers, clearly.
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2010, 03:27:36 am »
The staff at SARS idle? No way boss! They're on your case full-time. Work work work at SARS every minute.

How come I don't get any of this stuff?

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Re: 'tis the season for scammers, clearly.
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2010, 08:26:49 am »
I had a case recently where one of the tracer mail addresses I use started responding.

I contacted the source and the said that they had had a data theft issue but had caught some of the culprits and laid charges with the SAP.

Is there any way of checking if charges were laid by a particular company for some kind of crime?

Edit: Thats how they get your addresses - Ludo - you are likely just lucky with who you do business with, although most of the others here have likely entered there details into sites of dubious (if pleasing to look at) origin ;)
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