General Forum | Windsurf and Kitesurf Forums

Last Active : Never

Not logged in [Login - Register]

Back to: Forces-of-Nature

Forces-of-Nature Forums » General Forum » Spam Scam Beware

Printable Version
Subscribe | Add to Favorites

Kitefish

A Force-of-Nature *

Member #: 945
Posts 299
Registered: 31-8-2004
Location: Shrewsbury
Member Is Offline

Mood:

posted on 7-2-2006 at 20:21

Spam Scam Beware

Beware of spam being generated from leaving your email address in the for sale section

I know this had been discussed before and I know that Al does his absolute best to protect the site, but this is the latest.

I received an email yesterday from 'Flywithshem' the email read 'Thanks for use of our software' with an attachment. Being slightly suspicious of the use of English (even I know Shems is better than that) I did not open the attachment. I sent a U2U to Shem asking if he had emailed me, the answer was no

So the scammers are now using names from this site to send emails to friends on the site, SO BEWARE

Luckily I did not open the attachment, so I do not know what it was butI'm sure it couldn't have been bad news for my PC.

My advice to all is do not put your email address on any of the for sale, wanted or threads. Only use U2U. I don't want to lose the use of the for sale section as that is were I have sold my board and I want to help Al where I can to protect this site from vermin.

What do you say Al, do you have any advice. Also I aware that there a places that you can send spam so they can be blocked, do you know of such a site?

Keep your PC safe use U2U for personal contacts..

[Edited on 7-2-2006 by Kitefish]

justal

Administrator

Member #: 1
Posts 7350
Registered: 21-7-2002
Member Is Offline

Mood: Just Chillin Dude

posted on 7-2-2006 at 21:22

It's a new one on me, but if you want to send me the e-mail complete with the full headers I could look into it.

Al.

URL: Pixelwave Design - Website Design Wales
Shop: Website Templates

Personal Weblog: A Simple Life of Luxury in West Wales

Jonny

A Force-of-Nature **

Member #: 394
Posts 308
Registered: 6-10-2003
Location: North West
Member Is Offline

Mood: waitin for the next blow!

posted on 8-2-2006 at 13:10

I still get random emails askin about my mountain bike I sold 14 months ago. I advertised the bike on this site as well as one other website and still get emails from random foreigners askin if I can ship it out to them and they'd send me a cheque so naturally I make up some random address and ask them to post the cheque.

andy B

A Force-of-Nature *

Member #: 1118
Posts 209
Registered: 27-11-2004
Member Is Offline

Mood: ah ripped again

posted on 26-2-2006 at 20:28

wish i took your advice earlier chris, as you know i am selling awning for¬£125 received a cheque for ¬£2400 the guy wanting me to send rest of money on to him. kathy took cheque to bank to get advice and apparently its a money laundering scam. received email off another guy yesterday same kind of thing i assume so told him to get on his bike. now removed email address

Website Design in Wales, UK by Pixelwave Web Design.