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Daves
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 05:28 pm: |
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Since he is using a Yahoo address, I have reported him to Yahoo. All of you that have been contacted should do the same. |
Mikej
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 05:30 pm: |
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Ah, man, thought we were gonna get some fishin' in on this one. Oh well, who's got the chum bucket.... |
Daves
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 05:34 pm: |
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Looking into the DA thing. I hate scammers! |
Kaese
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 05:50 pm: |
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I work closely with the DA and wanted to know if they wanted to do a criminal case. They referred me to the Secret Service. Supposedly the Secret Service handles all the Email scams. I had gotten a similar email on having a for sale ad placed on a karting website. |
2k4xb12
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 08:10 pm: |
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Dave, What address did you use to report it? |
Daves
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 08:34 pm: |
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I logged on to www.yahoo.com and sent it in the feedback option. |
Robxb
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 08:40 pm: |
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PLUTO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, CANADA. REFF: OGS/2611786008/03 BATCH: 18/011/IPD/NL WINNING NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE !!! We are pleased to inform you of the result of the PLUTO Lottery International programs held on the 21st of September 2004. Your email address attached to ticket number 47511465-629 with serial number 077-99 drew lucky numbers 7-14-17-23-31-44 which consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$750,000.00 (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars) CONGRATULATIONS!!! Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted into your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000 companies and 50,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This promotional program takes place every three years. We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our end of year 50 million Dollar international lottery. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent Mr. Worthleen Jackson. ASSISTANT CORP B.V E.mail: worthleeng_jackson@yahoo.ca ,Fax 1-514-372-8522 Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 10th of Novenmber 2004. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next draw and rolled over for payment to a future winner. This automatically means that your unclaimed funds will be deemed as forfeited by you. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, you must remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once again from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note: Persons under 16 years of age are automatically disqualified. Sincerely yours, Ms. Mary Hughes (Winning coordinator) Kenny's just trying to buy your bikes, Look what I won. LOL right, the PLUTO lottery |
2k4xb12
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 09:09 pm: |
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I used this link to complain: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_spam?from_url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelp%2Eyah oo%2Ecom%2Fhelp%2Fus%2Fmail%2Fspam%2Fspam%2D07%2Ehtml Steve. |
T9r
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 09:17 pm: |
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Now that you have their e-mail address... go sign up for a bunch of Junk mail and use that address!!! Have fun with it, enjoy |
Along4theride
| Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 09:53 pm: |
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Now that you have their e-mail address... go sign up for a bunch of Junk mail and use that address!!! Sign him up for internet porn spam. They'll send as much as his account can handle and pass his email to other Spamers. A couple years ago this became the thing to do on one of the other boards I frequent. People were getting ahold of email addresses of people they disagreed with and signing them up for porn spam, which has no end. Eventually we all did as we are doing here and hid our email addresses. |
Ingemar
| Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 02:10 am: |
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All of you that have been contacted should do the same. If only one does it, it may not have any effect. If we all do this, well you know. I'll send when I get home. At work at the moment. |
Daves
| Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 06:26 pm: |
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Anyone hear from Kenny today? |
Jerseyguy
| Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 06:35 pm: |
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Dave - I got one but I just trashed it with the other spam. |
Johnk3
| Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 09:02 pm: |
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yeah, he wants to buy my bike too. |
Wyckedflesh
| Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 - 11:41 pm: |
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quote:Hello, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail. In this particular case, we have taken appropriate action against the Yahoo! account in question, as per our Terms of Service (TOS). For further details about the Yahoo! TOS, you can visit: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Please know that Yahoo! is unable to disclose the action taken on another user's account with a third party. We are not able to make exceptions to this rule. Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care. Regards, Harry Yahoo! Customer Care http://www.yahoo.com/ 12051584
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2k4xb12
| Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 - 11:56 pm: |
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Yep, got the same response. Wonder if they turned him over to the feds?
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Mikej
| Posted on Monday, November 08, 2004 - 10:43 am: |
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I see a new movie in the future: Dirty Harry - the web scam detective |
Dcentric
| Posted on Monday, November 08, 2004 - 11:13 am: |
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I've seen this a lot on Ebay Motors! The scam usually looks like this: Price: 1/2 of book value Reason for selling: Registration issues in their country Alleged place of sales: almost always Europe Payment: they want half paid in wire transfer Time of Auction: 24 hrs maximum They normally run it for a short time to see if someone will bite and before Ebay can figure out its a scam. By the time the unwary buyer figures out its a scam, they're off with a few grand that you can't, and Ebay won't, recover. I spotted a 350Z, Buell CityX, and an Infiniti G35, all at half their value, and all with the same story. |
T9r
| Posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 01:14 pm: |
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Here is an article on Snopes that talks about this exact thing happening. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/carsale.asp "As is the case in the 'cashier check' scam (sellers are duped into accepting cashier checks in excess of the amounts they seek for their goods on the understanding they are to forward the additional monies to third parties), the scam works because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) requires banks to make money from cashier's, certified, or teller's checks available in one to five days.",http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/reshipper.asp |
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