scam?

[telectrix]

just received tis email. looks like a scam to get your paypal details so they can rob your bank account. the giveaway is the grammar etc.

Hello Member !
This is Automatic Message Generated by System To Let you know that you have to confirm your account
your account muse be confirmed because he has been Limited Temporarly
to confirm your account and remove limitation , fellow steps and once your account confirmed he will be work as again
this is option is delivred for all members and 100% secured
The procces doesnt make more than 5 minutes
We are not monotoring this inbox ,
Thanks , PayPal Team[h=3]Remove Limit Here ![/h]

[h=5]Paypal Team 1999-2014 © All right Reserved for us[/h]

 

[telectrix]

nah. scouseland is way ahead. all got alloy wheels now. we can sell you geordies some of our old steel jobbies to replace your wooden ones. even send some pneumatic tyres so you can dump them solid ones.

 

[Guest77]

Shouldn't you be out nicking hub caps about now???

How can he do that from his wheel chair :wheelchair:

 

[Plonker 3]

How can he do that from his wheel chair :wheelchair:

scousers only use them when signing on.

 

[tidyboiler]

scousers only use them when signing on.

haha... so true!!

 

[telectrix]

oh, bugger. i've been rumbled. always thought signing certificates was every other tuesday down at the dole.

 

[Adam W]

I think it's something of a blessing that scammers and bootleggers still seem to take such a slapdash attitude towards the English language.
I appreciate it might not be a spelling test, but I'm still not going to buy anything from anyone who can't even be bothered to properly spell out what they want me to buy.

 

[plugsandsparks]

When these type of emails were less common, I would go to "properties" on said email and look at the message source code. Since ACSII is used for text you can have a look at the real "payload" of the email. Anyway these scammers typically would have hacked a companies website and would be using this to store all the dodgy details. The companies website could be anywhere in the world and of course totally unrelated like a "flower distribution company" - anyway I used to email the website owner to tell them , their website was blown but I don't bother anymore as there are too many. I think I had a paypal one just the other day and the website was some hydraulic component company in Romania. Hey ho

 

[Geordie Spark]

I think it's something of a blessing that scammers and bootleggers still seem to take such a slapdash attitude towards the English language.
I appreciate it might not be a spelling test, but I'm still not going to buy anything from anyone who can't even be bothered to properly spell out what they want me to buy.

Aye .. I know what you mean.

I look at the spelling and grammatical errors on these forums and wonder how some of these Sparks ever get their estimates / quotations accepted by customers.

 

[Plonker 3]

Aye .. I know what you mean.

I look at the spelling and grammatical errors on these forums and wonder how some of these Sparks ever get their estimates / quotations accepted by customers.

We dnt, thts y were always on ere

 

[Kris]

Hey guys , do you guys ever get the maintanance scam emails, i regularly get emails from a company offering 500 properties in my post code area to service and maintain ( im a gas engineer) and i can have these 500 properties if i pay this company £1200 for the contract , they must think im an idiot,

 

[plugsandsparks]

Yep, but they want £2000, and they sent a reminder when I did not respond. Barking. Oh let me see..... I pay the customer to do the work.....err that will catch on.... only to the extremely stupid

 

[Kris]

I tried an internet search for the company sending me the offers and sure enough couldnt find anything , some tool with a laptop,

 

[Besoeker]

I had similar in my business email earlier this week.
Irregular activities it said.
Plausible but a scam.
The sad thing is that some may be taken in by it,

 

[Baker1988]

I had similar in my business email earlier this week.
Irregular activities it said.
Plausible but a scam.
The sad thing is that some may be taken in by it,

It will be alot of people who will get sucked in, my mam rang me about a month ago to ask me what her online banking username was (I set it up for her) when I asked why she said that her bank have emailed her saying that her payment of £1000 has been completed and if she did not make this payment click on the link below and sign into online banking to correct this mistake, sje was actually going to do it she followed the link and every thing, I told her its a scam and you should not click on links in emails unless you trust the person who is sending it, it makes me think how many people actually know there login details and did actually log in and end up getting there accounts cleaned out

 

[Knobhead]

Hey guys , do you guys ever get the maintanance scam emails, i regularly get emails from a company offering 500 properties in my post code area to service and maintain ( im a gas engineer) and i can have these 500 properties if i pay this company £1200 for the contract , they must think im an idiot,

They’re correct, you're a plumber.