Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: RaaArtyGunner on October 11, 2010, 08:49:35 am
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We are getting this scam supposedly from <*< <*< >>:-( >>:-(
[email protected]
Beware, who would just give you 500 pounds stirling, see copy of email below, don't open the attachment dump it and block sender.
Shucks I don't even have an account with them <:( <:( <:( <:( also note that word, "amount", is incorrectly spelled. Reckon one thing that Bank staff can do is spell the common bank term "amount" correctly O0 O0
The irony is if you fill it in you are not a winner but a loser. <:( <:( <*< <*<
Following a random drawing, you have been selected as the
lucky winner of 500 pounds sterling .
HSBC is awarding the fidelity of it's customers.
Here at HSBC we like to thank you you for choosing our services.
For this ammount to be transferred in to your account, please download
and fill the attached form, to be sure that you are the winner
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Most banks would never send you details of an offer like that to your e-mail account. Never open them,and always mark them as phishing scams. <*<
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I also got one last week from them, saying my account had been closed , please fill in the details on attached form.
so we can raise a new account . yeah right never had one in the first place.
Don't open them. if you have an account with them give them a ring .
Mick
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A bank giving away money, enough to raise one's suspicions immediately . . . .
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I always dump them, of course, but remember that bad spelling and grammar isn't just restricted to the scammers and phishers.
I got an email from my web hosting providers. It told me that my yearly payment hadn't gone through and asked me to renew/update the details by 'clicking on the link'. It was littered with spelling errors and bad grammar, so it was duly BINNED!
A couple of days later, however, I got a printed version of the email in the post. Same errors. So I phoned them, using the contact details on their website rather than those on the email and letter. It turned out that it was genuine and that the change of payment details I'd given them online hadn't 'taken'. After agreeing to go online and update them as requested, I asked the young lady on the phone about the errors in the letter and email. She read it through and couldn't see them. Ye Gods! >:-o
I kindly rewrote the letter for them. ok2
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It's obviously a fake!
Misuse of an apostrophe on it's customers = fail! :-))
Pedantic Andy