email scams

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Linda Cann Pearson @LindaCPearson (2240) • United States 5 Apr 17

and no amount of SlimFast will help. Throughout eternity, there’s always been a seedy, slimy side of society. We knew it existed and called it the “underbelly.” Many of us innocents didn’t know exactly where it was or exactly...

underbelly of society

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What can we do to nip the email hackers in the bud?

anthony davis @lookatdesktop (27156) • Dallas, Texas 17 Dec 16

They seem to like sending SPAM email to our inboxes every freeking day! Carrying with each email SPAM could be a Trojan Virus attack or Malware or a Misdirect that leads you to a fake online pharmacy to buy Viagra or deal with...

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email identity theft scams

tigeraunt @tigeraunt (6326) • Philippines 25 Jan 11

hi mylotters, you get spam letters everyday in your inbox. sometimes you get warnings of lottery winnings (even if you have not joined any) or that you are warned to contact your bank to prevent it from freezing your account. the...

email scams

false notices

theft of identity

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Email Scams that Promise to Get Rich Effortlessly!

mariacecilia13 @mariacecilia13 (490) • Philippines 29 Sep 10

For the past five years, I have been receiving these kinds of emails wherein the sender was usually claiming to be the lawyer of the "deceased" family. He would tell me that he'll transfer the bank funds to my name before it was...

email scams

get rich effortlessly

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My Aunt is NOT in the UK and she does NOT need money to get home...

reinydawn @reinydawn (11642) • United States 3 Dec 09

This morning after my Wii workout, I saw an e-mail from my Aunt that was marked "hello urgent help pls" in the Subject line. That sounded odd, but I thought she needed something local and wanted me to mail it to her. I opened the...

email scams

hackers

pfishing

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Internet scams

gilc613 @gilc613 (11) • United States 27 Sep 09

Is there anybody else out there that is just plain sick and tired of recieving emails from every scam artist out there selling ebooks on how to make money online. I have seen over 200 this weekend alone. I wish we could find a...

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email scams

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Urgent massage form Soo-Yng Hung Low... As seen on Oprah!

jeffela @jeffela (120) • United States 11 Mar 09

Dearest Friends, This letter may come as surprise to you as I have not met me. But I am person with much troubles in this life. My father has gift me with US$10,000,000,000,000,000,000. An amount that I cannot spent in this...

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Nigerian Scam email claiming to be from FBI!!

CinderInMySoul @CinderInMySoul (4717) • United States 23 Nov 08

I just got this in my email..i know its totally bogus of course, but ive never gotten one of these scams where the email is claiming to be sent by the United States FBI!! im only going to post a bit of it..its friggin huge and...

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spalladino @spalladino (17891) • United States 18 May 08

There are many attempts to scam you out of your money or identity coming through the internet in the form of emails...work from home processing checks for foreign companies...credit card offers that are too good to be...

credit card offers

email scams

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Credit Check

carolbee @carolbee (16230) • United States 2 Jan 08

Do you run a credit check online on a regular basis? I did once and that was because I goofed in a big way. Thought an email was from PayPal asking important questions regarding updates. It was a scam and I did update the...

email scams

revealing personal information

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SCAM mail E-gold??????

wahptb @wahptb (188) • Canada 1 Dec 07

has anyone else received an Emil from BLOCKRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com? It says the Email is to:vox_m20@hotmail.com (not my address). The message is basically: Dear E-gold customer There are some problems with the E-gold...

email scams

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Emails how can you tell if their

keepermykitty @keepermykitty (2573) • Canada 22 Aug 07

Real or scams ???? I recieved one yesterday ststing that I`m a winner from UK LOTTERIES , and after my last experience with email fraud , I am very hesitant to claim it , anyone here know how to tell the difference ????? Thanx...

email scams

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BEWARE - New PayPal Email Scam

freak369 @freak369 (5112) • United States 11 Aug 07

I was so worried about this and it looked SO official but it is a scam. From my email: We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address. If you recently accessed your...

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Email scams

FelixLandon @FelixLandon (1113) • Canada 15 May 07

I got this email from a miss Eva Jones, Anyways she goes on and on about a sob story , which states that her parents just died and her father (rich coco merchant) left 11.5 million dollars in a safety deposit box and would I be...

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WARNING: Amazon.com Email Scam

freak369 @freak369 (5112) • United States 11 May 07

I got an email from "Amazon.com" or so I thought. It was on a rarely used email account that has NO connection to Amazon.com whatsoever. The email address has never been used at Amazon so I did some snooping and it turns out that...

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Email scams

Impervious @Impervious (1147) • United States 3 Apr 07

I don't know about the rest of you. But lately I have been getting alot of e mails that read somethin like this Dear sir I am the attorney for whoever from wherever and due to their recent and unexepected death. And the lack of...

email scams

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Warning Email scams

stacyv81 @stacyv81 (5903) • United States 24 Mar 07

Ok, this is an email I recieved in my inbox: God Is The ultimate Giver! Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the name of Allah, I am former Mrs.Fatima Setia Alan Buch, now Mrs. Esther Alan Buch, A widow...

email scams

security company

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Paypal account hijacked.

Angelwhispers @Angelwhispers (8978) • United States 13 Feb 07

I have heard it said that if you are online long enough you will be taken in by a scam or Identity thief. Well it finally happened to me this week. I have a few groups of PTR and surveys that i belong to, one of them has been...

fraud

scams

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beware of this scams

aries6484 @aries6484 (279) • India 30 Jan 07

place to read about the latest scams on internet,email scams,lottery scams,work at home scams etc..i am victim of this scams.don't invest in any money making programs.join the programs which are free to join just like mylot.And...

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Scam Emails

ewriterz @ewriterz (20) • India 3 Dec 06

I receive at least ten mails everyday telling me I have won millions of euros and dollars. Some mails request a donation of cash. All these mails really want you to reply to them. They collect personal information and use it is...

email scams

internet fraud

online scams

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