New bogus e-mails
By 11strikes
@11strikes (66)
United States
November 12, 2008 12:11pm CST
I am sure everybody is aware of those "phising" e-mails. Lately I got one from one that claims they are from the IRS. The subject says "Internal Revenue Service Payment". I am sure this is bogus since I always get notice from the IRS by mail and never through an e-mail. For sure this is another of those scams to steal personal information. Please do not open nor reply to these e-mails. A lot of people are so hyped in scamming and they never stop. They just reinvent new ways to do so. Will you open e-mails like these? I hope not...just delete or spam them.
3 responses
@adihindu (1922)
• India
13 Nov 08
Yes., one more scam. I agree in you with all aspects but We have to check the mail in the inbox. We should open them at least once and check whether it was spam or not. Gmail has very good spam filter in their site and even in gmail, some mails that we need could be catch by spam and some mail that are perfect spam may not catchup. I do look in spam for sender mail address, If I know the sender and subject, then I will mark as not spam.
@pierone (1894)
• Italy
12 Nov 08
Hello,
usually is a good way don't open emails that you don't know where are they from.
Anyway sometimes it can be funny.
For example, several time ago i got one of that scam emails where they say you to contact them coz you're the winner of 2 millions dollars. Well obviously if you contact them, they will ask you to send them several thousands dollars "only for the notarization expenses". So i sent them an email, saying i tried to call them but i got no answer, and i asked them to recall me.
They recalled me, of course, and i taked them at the phone more than 20 minutes!
So i let them spend some money, instead of let them got my money ;)
Could be nice if ALL the people do like that ;)
