PayPal scam

[Christies Child]

Be warned..if you pay by PayPal on e-Bay or other similar sites, you may receive an e-mail asking you to confirm a payment up to £100 for something that you haven't had.

[b]The whole thing is a fraud.

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[Keith]

where as, if I e-mail you asking for £100 for something you haven't had, it is NOT A SCAM and you should pay up immediately!

[outsider]

ok Keith, What's your account no, and sort code ? I'll pay it right away

[Gnasher]

Working over here in Sheffield quite a lot I hear about local scams and there's one that's starting to spread. If you get an invoice from ebuygum.com, report it to the poice.

[PUNKISDEAD]

e warned..if you pay by PayPal on e-Bay or other similar sites, you may receive an e-mail asking you to confirm a payment up to £100 for something that you haven't had.

The whole thing is a fraud.



CC, this post is another pointless off topic pile of toss, its like reading horoscopes, dec. 24, you may get some gifts tomorrow etc

You should get out more, oh sorry, you do, STALKING THE TEAM

[CASS]

e warned..if you pay by PayPal on e-Bay or other similar sites, you may receive an e-mail asking you to confirm a payment up to £100 for something that you haven't had.

The whole thing is a fraud.



CC, this post is another pointless off topic pile of toss

Not sure you are correct,a friendly gesture aimed at preventing someone else making a twat of themselves.

[Gnasher]

Not sure you are correct,a friendly gesture aimed at preventing someone else making a twat of themselves.

Which anyone with an online account will be repeatedly warned against time after time. If I posted a message every time I got a new scam email, you'd be well pissed off with Gnasher within a few days.

[PUNKISDEAD]

Sorry

Has he made a twat of himself

If so, he should spend a bit of time on websites like martynlewis.com for advice on not to be stupid online with your money

If he has not been ripped off, then I suggest you read my reply to the post again

[Number 1]

I think it's fair to say that if you get an email asking you for money, when you know you haven't bought anything, only a complete and utter numpty would be taken in by that.

You can usually tell anyway because the email doesn't address you in person, and if you hover over the link, and look at the bottom left of the screen it tells you where the link takes you. It's usually something .RU or .CZ or similar.

[Christies Child]

FFS...I try and warn people of something and all I get is a load of abuse.

Next time I'll do nowt and let some unsuspecting person get stung!

Not everybody is aware of such scams as some of you seem to think.

[Mark S]

FFS...I try and warn people of something and all I get is a load of abuse.

Next time I'll do nowt and let some unsuspecting person get stung!

Not everybody is aware of such scams as some of you seem to think.

Take no notice CC. If you have helped one 'less experienced' surfer then you have done a good thing.

[CASS]

I think it's fair to say that if you get an email asking you for money, when you know you haven't bought anything, only a complete and utter numpty would be taken in by that.

You can usually tell anyway because the email doesn't address you in person, and if you hover over the link, and look at the bottom left of the screen it tells you where the link takes you. It's usually something .RU or .CZ or similar.

Yes BUT some folk who comes on here might not be as savvy to the ways of the internet cons as you an Gnasher..Whats the harm in a little warning

Sorry

Has he made a twat of himself :?:

I was not referring to CC it was closer to home (Yours that is )

[PUNKISDEAD]

[wijit]

:lol:

I've said it before, and I say it again; We have to stop cousins from breeding with each other!

[PUNKISDEAD]

Its legal, actually in Bentham its the law

[Curly]

Its legal, actually in Bentham its the law

Your not wrong PUNKISDEAD!

[Mighty Red]

Take no notice CC. If you have helped one 'less experienced' surfer then you have done a good thing.

Saint CC?

[Gnasher]

Yes BUT some folk who comes on here might not be as savvy to the ways of the internet cons as you an Gnasher..Whats the harm in a little warning

Where do you draw the line with security warnings on a football forum? Like I said, I would quite happily update the forum with new security warnings and if each one stopped just one person being caught out, I've been a good boy. I won't because it's a football forum and I would flood it with warnings so back to my first question, where do you draw the line?

[Mark S]

The way I read it was that it was done with the best of intentions.

Hardly fair to jump all over him.

I would say to anyone that was moved enough to keep bringing it back to the top. If you dont like it, ignore it and let it sink. It hasnt done any harm.

Interesting debate over it being a football forum Gnasher. Should that mean we dont talk about local politics? The town as a whole? Our holidays?

Surely the beauty of this forum is its diversity?

[Gnasher]

Interesting debate over it being a football forum Gnasher. Should that mean we dont talk about local politics? The town as a whole? Our holidays?

While non-football posts don't flood the forum, I don't have a problem. When we struggle to find a football post because of the 10 daily thread about scams and virus, then I do have a problem. If I posted 10 threads every day about scams, etc, would you say well done to me? Back to the line again.

I'm well aware of the nature of the forum especially as I created it and intentionally added "What it says on the tin".

Anyway, as CC said last October, That's the last time I'm going to warn fellow SVs

[Mark S]

I think we have had two 'scam warning's in the last six months, so hardly flooding is it?

Applying the 'If' clause is not a compulsive arguement really is it?.

There are probably 10 press releases a week from Lancaster City Council. If you posted all those up, that would be flooding. Instead you choose which ones interest you and introduce them as a topic on here.

Other people introduce other things that dont really have any relavance to Morecambe FC, which is fine.

Personally I detest the local politics discussions on here and I am not 'too' bothered about The Dome discussions or whether Maggie Thatcher was the Devil. I just ignore them. Other people love it.

I bet this would have been on page 2 by now if people hadnt kept on.

Anyway, cant keep typing I have been given a Golden opportunity by a Mr Nambianda to make a lot of money. All I have to do is give him my Bank account details and he is going to transfer a lot of money into my account before his Government seize it! He has promised me a big cut.

[Gnasher]

Two scam warnings from CC in the last 6 months. Maybe he is being targeted? If you want scam warnings on the forum, not a problem.

There are probably 10 press releases a week from Lancaster City Council. If you posted all those up, that would be flooding. Instead you choose which ones interest you and introduce them as a topic on here.

Exactly Mark, we choose which ones are interesting and introduce them as a topic. How do you define which scam is interesting? Surely they all are? Or are only the ones CC gets interesting?

[RedRedWine1]

I know what you mean mark......up until a few weeks ago I never knew that I had a long lost relative in Nigeria......expecting the millions to be transferred anyway soon.

The 'best' scam I've heard was one that targeted individuals who had already been duped by a 419 type fraud. The individuals were offered help and support in getting over falling for the fraud, and in getting the money back that they had originally lost. This of course involved the transfer of further funds.....

In the words of the BBC's Real Hustle "If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

[Gnasher]

Today's emails:

Natwest have just released a new version of their customer form into which you are invited to type all your secure details.

Various prices for Viagra.

Doctor Maryetta Zeitler and Victor Manuel Rojas Carnero have offers I shouldn't be able to resist.

Jordan Edmonds has some handbags at knockoff prices (probably because they are, if they exist).

Jessica John thinks I am worthy of an honorary degree.

If anyone can be bothered to search for last October's thread, I did post some very useful information in it.

[Mark S]

Two scam warnings from CC in the last 6 months. Maybe he is being targeted? If you want scam warnings on the forum, not a problem.

There are probably 10 press releases a week from Lancaster City Council. If you posted all those up, that would be flooding. Instead you choose which ones interest you and introduce them as a topic on here.

Exactly Mark, we choose which ones are interesting and introduce them as a topic. How do you define which scam is interesting? Surely they all are? Or are only the ones CC gets interesting?

How do you define which press release is interesting? Very few are to me.

Not much difference someone posting about Councillors shortcomings and the latest scam to me personally.

Its either 'football only' or 'open to anything'. There is no definitive list of what can or what cant be posted (unless of course it is illegal, obscene, abusive etc)

Ignore what you dont like. Its what I do