419 Fraud

[bryce]

I was wondering if anyone has been sent emails about this just to warn people... It normally involves someone claiming they are from a foreign country who wishes you to be the benificiary of millions of dollars.
If anyone has had similar experiences please post about it on here.

 

[Western Warrior]

I was wondering if anyone has been sent emails about this just to warn people... It normally involves someone claiming they are from a foreign country who wishes you to be the benificiary of millions of dollars.
If anyone has had similar experiences please post about it on here.

I think everyone can put their hand up on that one. Nigeria, the land of fraudulant emails.

 

[Slats4ever]

hehe u just missed a thread about this not so long ago... i'm sure there was one in the past

 

[PY]

Try searching the forums for spam emails, there's some real classics there.

 

[masterblaster]

Gotten plenty of them as well. Eddie had a thread devoted to this stuff.

 

[bryce]

haha ok well it's new to me, the freaky thing was the dude rang my house the other day lol.

 

[Langeveldt]

On a more serious note, ebay members beware..

I was stupid enough to pursue a request for my bank details so I could repay my listing fees automatically (which I wanted to do anyway)..

When I got to the crucial bit, I realized that the email sender name was Ebay.com and not Ebay... Basically an imitation email so someone else can get at my bank account.. Luckily I realized before it was too late..

 

[bugssy]

On a more serious note, ebay members beware..

I was stupid enough to pursue a request for my bank details so I could repay my listing fees automatically (which I wanted to do anyway)..

When I got to the crucial bit, I realized that the email sender name was Ebay.com and not Ebay... Basically an imitation email so someone else can get at my bank account.. Luckily I realized before it was too late..

there has been alot of those ones aswell

the biggest thing to look for is they usually ask you to click a link and give your details there, when you do click the link it will be some weird address, usuall ebay is ebay.com.au or ebay.com so there one is like d12//ebay something like that so yer guys beware!