email scams

[jiggy-gb]

Not sure where else to post this. This one's a new one, and i get loads. Just wanted to give a heads up to those who might be taken in. Ignore any messages from these people [email protected]
or any messages like this...
We wish to notify you that this email address was randomly selected and
entered into our free 2ND Category draws. You have subsequently emerged
a winner and therefore entitled to an amount of �250,000.00 Pounds.
kindly confirm receipt of this email, by forwarding this message to our
claims department on

Email: [email protected]


at the very least by replying you'll be added to every sleazy spam list the world over.

Sorry to those who are well up on this stuff, but not everyone is, please add any others here if you have them.

[dot.hawkes]

Hiya jiggy, thanks for that, i keep getting emails from the royal bank of scotyland with which i have an account, and it says about online registration upodates ans says quote this reference, but when i look at the address line, meaning who they have sent it to, iy isn;t my addy but a very close one each time, like dor.haula or something, and so i went into the branch and spoke to two dierent muppets with two obviously different levels of competence, one was at level zero and the other was ungraded, so i just dlete them now lol

[jiggy-gb]

Thanks for that Dot. You know, the banks all sell our details to marketing lists. I had a joint account for a charity with a colleague, everything we collected at work went into the account straight away to save it being stolen from a desk etc. The account was in both our names, joint signature, but with her home address. She got sooooo much junk mail for me to her house, where else could all that have come from? They're as guilty as the scammers in some respects?

[dot.hawkes]

I don't get why the email gets to me but it is addressed to someone with a similar sounding name, that's wierd, and as i said, that lot at the RBS act like the internet is an alien concept.

[leelapops]

Ta jiggy :)

[phil87015]

Yep, heard it all before. I'm getting sick of getting emails from a lawyers acting for a clients, and low and behold they want to use your bank account to launder their cash, and you get a precentage usually 60/40 in their favour. These emails come fron Nigeria or somewhere from west africa.
The best one was from a lawyer who's client was on the Concorde aircrash in Paris, funny that i've had loads of those emails, in fact i think i had everybody on the passenger list of that flight.