OT: I Have Won!!!

Phoenix-D · #1 December 5th, 2004, 02:14 PM

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David E. Gervais said:
Or they say something really stupid.. Sir we need your credit card info in order to confirm your identity. Duh? a credit card is not a piece of identification.

Actually a credit card CAN be used as a piece of ID. The airlines do it now for example (and no, it wasn't the card used to pay for the flight).

Not that this isn't a scam.

Atrocities · #2 December 5th, 2004, 02:27 PM

IF I had won, then the inorbit.com site would be real.

Also the information about signing up for their hosts email service was a dead give away. Duhhhhhhhhhhhh

Just once I would like to meet up with one of the people behind these scams and beat them to near death with a wooden bat. Then just for good measure, tie em to a concrete block and drop em in the river. If they float, then they live, if not, well.... who'd miss em?

sachmo · #3 December 5th, 2004, 02:50 PM

I had a coworker who just fell for the eBay account scam. Social Security, debit card number, everything.

Atrocities · #4 December 5th, 2004, 05:47 PM

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sachmo said:
I had a coworker who just fell for the eBay account scam. Social Security, debit card number, everything.

Oh man, those kind of scams are far harder to detect and a lot easier to fall for. If not for the fact that I did not have an account with Washington Mutual, I too may have fell for a simular scam.

I guess the crux of the situation would be to consider every email suspect until proven lagit.

I hope your co-worker was able to change everything before they could act upon the information they were deceived into providing.

Gandalf Parker · #5 December 5th, 2004, 09:08 PM

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Atrocities said:

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sachmo said:
I had a coworker who just fell for the eBay account scam. Social Security, debit card number, everything.

Oh man, those kind of scams are far harder to detect and a lot easier to fall for. If not for the fact that I did not have an account with Washington Mutual, I too may have fell for a simular scam.

I guess the crux of the situation would be to consider every email suspect until proven lagit.

I hope your co-worker was able to change everything before they could act upon the information they were deceived into providing.

Whenever a thread breaks out about how to tell if its real or not I tell people DONT TRY TO TELL. Yes I can still read the headers and spot the falsehood in it because I fairly well know http protocol. But they do get harder and harder to spot. So my stance is NEVER click an email link for things like that. Always go manually to the site and look for the link you need.

For that matter conisder it for phone calls also. You should have a rule that you never give ANY personal information to anyone who calls you. You should manually look up the number and call the company.

Sivran · #6 December 5th, 2004, 11:19 PM

You fool, you passed up a chance at riches!

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 December 6th, 2004, 04:23 PM

All lottories are scams. X number of people pay Z amount of money and one person gets Z/2.

Baron Munchausen · #8 December 6th, 2004, 06:24 PM

Yep, I got those Washington Mutual PHISHING scams, too. Apparently our emails are in the same scammers' list...

I immediately forwarded them to the abuse address at Washington Mutual so they would be aware of what was going on as quickly as possible. I hope they catch some of those weenies and give them hard time.

DeadZone · #9 December 6th, 2004, 06:57 PM

I did hear that the FBI are investigating some email scams

Atrocities · #10 December 6th, 2004, 07:18 PM

Yes, but the FBI would rather we not know that.