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Post by JR8 » Fri, 25 Nov 2011 9:39 pm

movingtospore wrote:In SP I kept getting calls from the Philippines and/or India trying to tell me their was something wrong with my computer that needed immediate rescuing. Immediate hang ups of course as soon as I asked them what kind of @#$-ing idiot they thought I was.
This is a recognised scam, happened to my mother in the UK earlier this year [the calls coming from India]...


[They say they represent Microsoft, you have viruses, they are calling to help. They get remote access to your PC, install a key-logger, and then try and then sell you an AV package. If my mum wasn't still on steam-powered dial-up at the time they would have probably succeeded, before she thought of calling me! :)]

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Post by x9200 » Sat, 26 Nov 2011 8:03 am

A friend of mine got this one recently via .... skype:
danielzh4: Hello xxxxx, accept my apologies for contacting you through this medium since we do not know each other prior to this message. But for security reason and of course confidentiality, I have no better and safer means to carry out this project, First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval I wish to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you.

I am Danielz Haziz from Libya, I write to inform you of my desire to invest, and to buy a living house in your country. I am the first son of Engr.Marcial Haziz, who worked with Libyan National Oil Corporation.

If you are still online please kindly contact me back so that I will give you full details of this project, or you can contact me through my privet email [email protected] for more details

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Post by JR8 » Sat, 26 Nov 2011 8:08 am

x9200 wrote:A friend of mine got this one recently via .... skype:
danielzh4: Hello xxxxx, accept my apologies for contacting you through this medium since we do not know each other prior to this message. But for security reason and of course confidentiality, I have no better and safer means to carry out this project, First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval I wish to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you.

I am Danielz Haziz from Libya, I write to inform you of my desire to invest, and to buy a living house in your country. I am the first son of Engr.Marcial Haziz, who worked with Libyan National Oil Corporation.

If you are still online please kindly contact me back so that I will give you full details of this project, or you can contact me through my privet email [email protected] for more details
So it's probably a '419 Fraud' which that has been going on for donkeys years. Is the point that going via Skype is new?

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Post by x9200 » Sat, 26 Nov 2011 8:42 am

Yep. Besides, for already some time they individually vary both the names and the e-mail address so it is not that instant to google it out if you are nor familiar with this particular scam and want to do some checks.

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Post by nutnut » Sat, 26 Nov 2011 9:24 am

I take the old school approach, I either;

1. Hang up
2. Tell them to f*** off and hang up.

That is all!
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Post by Asdracles » Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:05 pm

Not only in Skype!!

[img]http://i.imgur.com/RX1EU.png
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This guys adapt quickly to all new technologies! :D

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Post by BillyB » Sat, 26 Nov 2011 5:12 pm

JR8 wrote:
x9200 wrote:A friend of mine got this one recently via .... skype:
danielzh4: Hello xxxxx, accept my apologies for contacting you through this medium since we do not know each other prior to this message. But for security reason and of course confidentiality, I have no better and safer means to carry out this project, First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval I wish to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you.

I am Danielz Haziz from Libya, I write to inform you of my desire to invest, and to buy a living house in your country. I am the first son of Engr.Marcial Haziz, who worked with Libyan National Oil Corporation.

If you are still online please kindly contact me back so that I will give you full details of this project, or you can contact me through my privet email [email protected] for more details
So it's probably a '419 Fraud' which that has been going on for donkeys years. Is the point that going via Skype is new?
Anyone who falls for that horsesh*t deserves to lose money. You can't cheat an honest person, remember!

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Sat, 26 Nov 2011 8:15 pm

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't.
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers

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Post by JR8 » Sat, 26 Nov 2011 8:17 pm

sundaymorningstaple wrote:If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't.
Well that's a new spin on an old expression! :)

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Post by BillyB » Sat, 26 Nov 2011 8:21 pm

JR8 wrote:
sundaymorningstaple wrote:If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't.
Well that's a new spin on an old expression! :)
But then again, I remember reading a disclaimer in an autobiography that stated; 'the stuff that sounds like it was made up most certainly wasn't, and the stuff that sounds boring was most likely made up!'.

Going off topic a bit there....

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