While not directly related to phishing emails, my newest friend covers the other side of email skanks.
You know them, the pond scum that sends you emails telling you that you’ve been selected a winner in the lottery and you only need to send a few hundred in processing fees, or the ones that start with "Beloved" and promise you a fortune for helping them sneak millions out of their war-torn country because they are dying of cancer and suddenly grew a conscience and their murdered husband was the former president and died in a plane crash after he was tortured to death which happened just before he was hanged for stealing all the blood diamonds out of Nigeria, for which he spent 900 years in a Lyberian prison where he was forced to endure endless loops of Bush’s latest press release….. yada yada yada….. but anyway, I want to do good with the 18.3 million before I die alone and unloved, and won’t you help me? Or the 1D10T5 (geek for idiots) that bid on your eBay auction or find your ad for an apartment and tell you they just received a $25,000 check and would send it right to you as payment if you could deposit it for them, you know, because I’m moving and haven’t gotten a new bank yet, and I need travel money and my sick aunt needs gallbladder surgery and you can even keep a few grand for your trouble, but could you wire it ASAP? Pretty Please?????
Putting it in clear terms so everyone understands, if someone contacts you about:
- Foreign Business Offers
- Sudden Riches (yours or theirs)
- Work-at-Home Schemes
- Love Losses
- Overpayments on your auction item or classified ad
and wants to send you money that does not belong to you or give you a check in excess of your price with the stipulation that you deposit the large amount and wire or transfer back to them any amount quickly, DELETE THE EMAIL ASAP!
Do not attempt to deal with these skanks, they are crooks and the "checks" they send are forgeries, very good forgeries, that often fool banks long enough for you to wire the requested amount to the skank and then find out from your bank that the check was no good and you are out thousands. Even checks from other states can take up to a week to clear and foreign checks can take weeks.
Do not attempt to "play" with these jerks. If you attempt to turn the tables on them and they find you, it will be your tookus on the hook, not theirs. They do not play nice, they are the scum of the Earth and they care little for your life or safety.
Rush right over to FakeChecks.org for all the dirt on these skanks and how they operate!
Entries (RSS)