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Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:43 am

Again this bloody idiots are sending me those strange messages! I do not have an account with this people, of course, they are in the hunt, so be careful... Here is the mail they are sending, but I have changed the link, as this may be dangerous, the one I give is false of course:

Dear SouthTrust Bank costumer,

Technical services of the SouthTrust bank are carrying out a planned software upgrade. We earnestly ask you to visit the following link to start the procedure of confirmation of customers’ data.

(Here there is a link I have changed for security matters of course)

http://www.southbank.com/st.blablablablablablablablabla

Please, do not answer to this mail – follow the instructions given above.

We present our apologies and thank you for co-operating.

Copyright C 2005 SouthTrust. All Rights Reserved
SouthTrust Bank, Member FDIC.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:51 am

I suggest you just delete any email from companies you didn't ask for. Believe me, none of them email you for you to make a good deal.

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Mon May 23, 2005 6:29 pm

Yeah, I've been getting similar. I thought I'd confuse 'em and gave them Nestor's account details instead.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:48 pm

Uffff, very funy!

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Mon May 23, 2005 11:45 pm

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:04 am

obviously all email like this is fake. It's like those nigerians who supposedly want to deposit millions of dollars from some murdered ex-dictator on your bankaccount

Sadly there are still people who buy this crap.

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Tue May 24, 2005 8:05 am

I get this crap on a daily basis. I probably should just start a regular rotating email address scheme but I have legitimate business accounts that I can't just change without causing some sort of confusion. Luckily (for me) my ISP uses SBC/Yahoo email service and they filter out about 99% of all this doo doo. I still have to go in and check it every once in a while but anything that I don't recognise as legitimate gets flushed in one big fell swoop.

Something a bit more alarming though: I was reading a news bit on Yahoo about some new virus software that gets in your PC, locks up important data files and then the author holds your data for ransom. If you pay $200 they will send you an unlock key.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/internet_ransom

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue May 24, 2005 9:19 am

On 2005-05-24 07:04, King of Snake wrote:
obviously all email like this is fake. It's like those nigerians who supposedly want to deposit millions of dollars from some murdered ex-dictator on your bankaccount

Sadly there are still people who buy this crap.

I have been told by a close friend related to investigations matters, that those guys are behind drugs. What they want for you is to wash money. It is an international mafia group, truly scary… That’s the internet.

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Tue May 24, 2005 9:48 am

Sorry if I had fun at your expense, Nestor.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:27 pm

On 2005-05-24 10:48, emzee wrote:
Sorry if I had fun at your expense, Nestor.

Don't worry, I'll get you one od those days...

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Tue May 24, 2005 5:12 pm

I only give my ISP email to friends and use gmail and yahoo for everything else. I don't get any spam or unwanted email in my primary email account.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:05 pm

On 2005-05-24 10:19, Nestor wrote:
...What they want for you is to wash money. ...

no, they just want you to pay the 'small expenses fee', say $1-5k, so the deal can start.

it's not even bad minded, nothing but applied statistics.
Assuming one out of 10k people is a complete idiot, estimate the result 100k emails will have - and I guess that's not even considered true 'mass' today.

imho who likes to deal with the Nigerian connection deserves what he or she gets - mind you, it's pure greed that drives those folks.

cheers, Tom

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:10 pm

I agree.

As the saying goes, "There's a fool born every minute. We only need one a week."

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:11 pm

With email they can get a lot closer than before. I'm worried I might slip up, show my true colours, and fall for it.

Post by **hubird** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:45 pm

yeah, what's new about this all?