Basic fact is guys that no genuine organisation would ask for personal information unless you were logged into their website after you have received email conformation that you had successfully subscribed to that site. Banks and the like won´t let you onto their site account page until you have the specific codes that they send to you by snail mail ( and most make it clear that they will never ask for information by email ). <br /> <br />If you go to a page that doesn´t look familiar drop it like a red hot brick and ring the appropriate people... my bank changed the look of their web pages a few years back and I gave them a real bollicking for not letting people know what was going to happen by post beforehand! <br /> <br />So any email you ever receive asking for that sort of info has to be dodgy. Do what eType2 suggests...report it!!
Never put any secure information on an e-mail. Period. This is a big problem and a rising crime here in the USA. They are scumbags. There is nothing in this world that I have less use for than a thief. }:(
Thank you etype2, mickeblue, and Fred. I agree 100% with all your comments. No matter how many times it is said and no matter how many know, millions of people fall for this crap everyday. I am hoping this will prevent a few more from not falling for it and with comments like yours, I think it will do the job! Thanks ❤️ :)
There are many kinds of fake emails, many different people and situations. For example: I received many mails with a normal user account (name + net provider). The latest mail contains a text that was quite believable: <br /> <br />"Hey there, what´s going on? Did not read anything from you for a lot of time. Hope you´re fine. Hope to see you again soon in our chatroom, still remember the nice chats we had all together. If you like you can call me onmy cellphone (number) ..." <br /> <br />The first surprising thing was, that I did not know the persons email address, so I became sceptical. Anyways ... for some months I chatted with some persons I know from a forum so I thought that one of them simply wants to fool me. Finally I entered the cell phone number at google to check what it says about it ... "this cell phone numer is a trap ... when you ring that number the cell phone is switched off or the mailbox is answering ... when you send an sms, you´ll definitively receive an answer, or many, but with confusing texts that practically invite you to keep sending messages ... what you do not know is, that each message you send costs you more than 2 for each message. <br /> <br />I have some friends with whom I chat sometimes or meet them in my forum. Some of them I know personally (because we talked on the phone or via network together or one of them I met some months ago when I visited my parents, cause she lives near my hometown so there was a chance to meet each other). Except those friends and some family members I would never phone anyone I meet in a chatroom, forum, on a website and so on. <br /> <br />But what I mean to say with the above example is, that it depends on you experience and situation. Many people often visit a chatroom and talk to many people there. Some of them would definitively call that cell number or send messages. <br /> <br />Another example: There has been an alert about malware some time ago. A trojan, that comes via email and the mail tells you, that there is a class reunion from your college and some photos are with the atachment for preparing that meeting. Of course it was not a photo, but the trojan hidden behind a fake file extension. Someone told me, that without knowing about this alert, she arranged a class reunion of her old college and was waiting for some photos she should receive by mail ... guess what happend after! <br /> <br />There are many kinds of emails, some with virus atachments, others are pretended to be from your bank or any wellknown company, simple SPAM and so on ... all of them with one same background: STEALING YOUR MONEY - a new revolution of business since many people use the nerwork. Not only in the USA but all over the world. Here in Germany we receive many mails, most of them have their source in the US, in Russia, Romania and so on. <br /> <br />The best solution: <br /> <br />Read your Mails only in text, not in HTML <br />Inmediately delete all the mails whos sender is unknown to you, without opening them. <br />Never open an atachment that was sent spontaneously, better ask the sender by phone or something to get sure that he really sent this atachment <br />Scan all the atachments you finally saved on your computer before you open them. <br /> <br />Thank you for reading this long post and sorry if there might be some wrong sentences, my English has been really better some years ago when I often used it ... <br /> <br />Jadoo :) <br /> <br />
Your english is fine Jadoo and thank you. Some good advice here. I have to agree there are more fakes out there than anyone could ever get down on paper. It is an insidious plague that many still fall for even after all the warnings. Thank you for your time and efforts to help. Lets hope some more people have been saved from this nightmare from reading these posts. :congrats :Happy
