OAP loses £16,000 in emeail scam

**timey** · 12-12-2007, 23:25

Silly bugger.

BBC NEWS | Wales | OAP loses £16,000 in e-mail scam

**Alpha** · 12-12-2007, 23:47

Obviously a first time naive internetter!!

**timey** · 12-12-2007, 23:56

The thing is they said in the article that she was "quite internet aware". But still an eejit though.

**A_B** · 13-12-2007, 00:08

Aww, bless her.

How anyone can fall for these things amazes me.

**Gemo52** · 13-12-2007, 00:31

Don't they give silver surfers scam lessons in the classes run for them.

What's "quite internet aware". The letter she received was "quite well written".

Pc Steve Carpenter needs to add a few more qualifying adjectives to his repertoire.

**Zombie Mastermind** · 13-12-2007, 03:19

It depends how convincing the e-mail is.

I fell for it meself last year when someone claiming to be my bank asked me to update my account details.

Everything seemed above board and official until I got a call from my real bank asking me if I had transferred large amounts of cash in the wee-hours a couple of after I had been unknowingly scammed.

Luckily the twats didn't get their hands on me loot as the bank had stopped the transaction in time.

I get e-mails all the time from Natwest asking for my details. I do not bank with Natwest however.

I suppose some peeps will still fall for it though.

**SFB** · 13-12-2007, 09:37

Chances are she's Welsh, so has a good excuse for being thick.

**timey** · 13-12-2007, 17:35

Originally Posted by Zombie Mastermind

It depends how convincing the e-mail is.

I fell for it meself last year when someone claiming to be my bank asked me to update my account details.

Everything seemed above board and official until I got a call from my real bank asking me if I had transferred large amounts of cash in the wee-hours a couple of after I had been unknowingly scammed.

Luckily the hairbears didn't get their hands on me loot as the bank had stopped the transaction in time.

I get e-mails all the time from Natwest asking for my details. I do not bank with Natwest however.

I suppose some peeps will still fall for it though.

I usually respond to those phishing emails by logging into the bogus site using user names and passwords that are swear words or something else. The other day I "logged into" one with the name of George Bush etc.

The phishing ones are the worst as they send you to a bogus site that looks just like the real thing. The giveaway is the URL - it will have something in front of it. The one the other had an extra IP address in front of the one for the real website, so ti was obvious (plus I did not have an account with that bank). All users of online bank accounts should now be aware of phishing attempts and how they work. All my banks put big warning messages on their sites when I log in so there are plenty of warnings - if people read them.

The news article, however, was not this type of phishing scam though, and was of the type that most people should be wary of. If anyone asks me for money up-front then it is obviously a scam and they would not get any further.