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- Thread starter TechWiz18
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I haven't personally, but you see it all the time on the news. People clicking on links in emails they shouldn't have or giving out personal identification information. Some of it is so easy to avoid, but other times it just isn't that simple.
I don't shop online, and I don't give out anything like real information unless absolutely required by a business that has a track record, like Amazon.com, not their 'partners', Amazon.
And my Paypal account has less than a hundred dollars in it.
I've never bought anything off Ebay or any of those sites either.
(Also, the use of the apostrophe in the word scam changes it to the possessive instead.
Meaning, "the scam's purpose is to make money" instead of "there are too many scams".)
And my Paypal account has less than a hundred dollars in it.
I've never bought anything off Ebay or any of those sites either.
(Also, the use of the apostrophe in the word scam changes it to the possessive instead.
Meaning, "the scam's purpose is to make money" instead of "there are too many scams".)
I've done a small amount of trading on Ebay without problems, but to be cautious I too only keep moderate funds in both my Paypal and the account linked to it.
What I do find annoying is there's not many days go by without at least one phishing email in my inbox. Luckily they are usually fairly easy to spot and delete without opening.
What I do find annoying is there's not many days go by without at least one phishing email in my inbox. Luckily they are usually fairly easy to spot and delete without opening.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Field Intelligence Groups J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.
Field Intelligence Groups J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.
Attention: Beneficiary,
We sincerely apologized for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail instead of a certified mail, post-mail, phone or face to face conversation, it's due to the urgency and importance of the security information of our citizenry, i am Special Agent Erick Bolt from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs). We intercepted two consignment boxes at JFK Airport, New York. The boxes were scanned and they contained large sum of money ($4.1 million) and also some backup documents which bears your name as the Beneficiary/Receiver of the money. Investigation was carried out on the diplomat that accompanied the boxes into the United States and he said that he was to deliver the fund to your residence as overdue payment owed to you by the Federal Republic of Nigeria through the security company in United Kingdom.
After cross-checking all legal documents in the boxes, we found out that your consignment was lacking an important document and we can't release the boxes to the diplomat until the document is found, we have no other option than to confiscate your consignment.
According to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) in Title 26 also contain reporting requirement on a Form 8300, Report of Cash Payment Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business, money laundering activity may violate 18 USC §1956, 18 USC 1957, 18 USC 1960, and provision of Title 31, and 26 USC 6050I of the United States Code (USC), this section will discuss only those money laundering and currency violation under the jurisdiction of IRS, your consignment lacks proof of ownership certificate from the joint team of IRS and IRC, therefore you need to reply back immediately for direction on how to procure this certificate to enable us relieved the charge of evading the law on you, which is a punishable offense in the United States.
You are required to reply back within 72hours or you will be prosecuted in a court of law for money laundering, also you are instructed to desist from further contact with any bank(s) or person(s) in Nigeria or the United Kingdom or any part of the world regarding your payment because your consignment has been confiscated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation here in the United States.
Yours In Service,
Special Agent Erick Bolt
Regional Deputy Director
Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs)
I just got an email that routed to my Inbox (and not my junk mail folder) that said I had a FedEx delivery that couldn't be delivered to my apartment, and I had to click on this link to get a shipping label. It freaked me out cause normally those things go to junk mail, but the e-mail address it came from was suspicious.
Icetex said:
Yeah, mine came up as a totally different thing from some email that was like: [email protected] or something. It was weird.
