Common Scams Section

[Gibbo2286]

Got this in mt spam folder today.
Hí there!

Have you notí?ed your deví?e ís a?tíng weírd lately?
I am a professíonal ha??er and ha?e su??essfully managed to ha?? your operatíng system.
Currently I ha?e gaíned full a??ess to your a??ounts and e-maíls ????????????????
Heres one of your passwrd for example.. ??????? ^-^

In addítíon, I was se?retly monítoríng all your a?tí?ítíes and wat?híng you for se?eral months.
The thíng ís your ?omputer was ínfe?ted wíth harmful spyware due to the fa?t that you had ?ísíted a websíte wíth p**n ?ontent pre?íously. ?_?_?

Let me explaín to you what that entaíls. Thanks to Tro?an ?íruses, I ?an gaín ?omplete a??ess to your ?omputer or any other de?í?e that you own.
It means that I ?an see absolutely e?erythíng ín your s?reen and swít?h on the ?amera as well as mí?rophone at any poínt of tíme wíthout your permíssíon.
In addítíon, I ?an also a??ess and see your ?onfídentíal ínformatíon as well as your emaíls and ?hat messages.

You may be wonderíng why your antí?írus ?annot dete?t my malí?íous software.
Let me break ít down for you: I am usíng harmful software that ís drí?er-based, whí?h refreshes íts sígnatures on a hourly basís, hen?e your antí?írus ís unable to dete?t ít presen?e.

I ha?e made a ?ídeo ?ompílatíon, whí?h shows on the left síde the s?enes of you masturbatíng, whíle on the ríght síde ít demonstrates the ?ídeo you were wat?híng at that moment..^-^
All I need ís ?ust to share thís ?ídeo to all emaíl addresses and messenger ?onta?ts of people you are ín ?ommuní?atíon wíth on your de?í?e or PC.
Furthermore, I ?an also make publí? all your emaíls and ?hat hístory.

I belíe?e you would defínítely want to a?oíd thís from happeníng.
Here ís what you need to do – transfer the bít?oíns equí?alent of 5200 USD to my bít?oíns a??ount
(that ís rather a símple pro?ess, whí?h you ?an ?he?k out onlíne ín ?ase íf you don’t know how to do that).
You ?an also use bít?oín ATMs near you.

[CitroJim]

And here was me saying I never see scams... Seems I do in my professional life

Rather scary. Easily seen as a scam by the sender's email address being the usual sort of spammy fictitious but otherwise just a bit too plausible, given the reason for the disablement...

Happily, our page remains good. Very worrying given I'm the principal photographer at the events and regularly publish my albums of pictures on the page.

Google, to their credit - whom parkrun uses for email services - correctly determined the email to be suspicious and popped it into the junk folder.

[Hell Razor5543]

I have just has a phone call (supposedly from London, equally supposedly from Vodafone) from +44 204 614 7408. Usual quiet first four seconds, followed by "Hello". I responded "Hello", and they then said they were from Vodafone. As this is a company phone, and managed by my employer I hung up and blocked the number.

I have also just run a check on this number, and it seems to have become active today. I have reported this number to Vodafone (who are our network provider) using the 7726 text number.

[Gibbo2286]

I had a repeat today of the one I had the other day, decided to forward it to the .gov phishing report site, it won't go, I keep getting

"An error occurred inside the server which prevented it from fulfilling the request."

Do you reckon that's a shortcoming at TalkTalk or has the scammer been able to somehow block the report?

[mickthemaverick]

Did you use this address Gibbo? [email protected].
If that doesn't work try going on their website and use the reporting link from there:

https://www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-em ... s-phishing

[Gibbo2286]

Yes Mick that's the one, tried several times, I'll try your suggestion next.

[myglaren]

This looks a lot like spam/phishing to me.
Direct debit already taken this month, they have the dates and amount completely wrong.
Reported to BT.

[Paul-R]

More "definitely" than "maybe". Just look at the sender's email address. This is where phones fall down badly as they omit the email address when viewing.

[myglaren]

First thing I checked. I'm still with BT, it hasn't changed to EE for me yet.
I was told it would and have been expecting it. The girl next door works for BT/EE.

[mickthemaverick]

Yes 100% agree with Paul, that is a scam for certain and I had a similar one last week concerning my DD for Vodaphone. Sadly I have not got, and never have had anything to do with Vodaphone let alone a DD in their favour!! Purely speculative phishing by the perpetrator, presumably going on the basis that if you send enough out someone somewhere will fall for it and click the link!!