The topic can stay here as long as people actually *discuss* stuff...

And remember that the topic is email SCAMS not just spam emails or ads for porn, Viagara, Canadian Pharmacies etc. Unless those are scams...maybe they are...Anyways I love getting those scam emails from people trying to make you think its an official email from eBay or Paypal, and then you read it and there's typos and stuff, lol. Oh yeah, I'm fooled! :jk: Anyways whether an email looks official or not I don't ever click links in them (unless I'm expecting an activation email for a forum like this for example), I just go to the site and go to my account and take care of business that way.

What about those with "job offers"? Eh, some of them I get on my inbox sound too good to be true, and some of them are office management positions. :P Not exactly what I'm looking for, lol.

how about the classic "you, won a free ipod" lol

I've gotten a few pretending to be from Paypal over the last couple of years. Unfortunately they're very well done; correct spelling, words used in the proper context, the works. Even the graphics are consistent with a real Paypal email. The message is usually something about a $300.00 iPod or an Xbox or some similar crap that I would never buy. They say I did, they suspect fraud, and are trying to correct everything, but they need my PIN to make the corrections. That's the givaway right there, the PIN request. No one other than me needs to know my PIN, period. I forward copies of the scam to everyone who I think should know about it and alert my bank.

I've seen some pretty clever ebay and paypal ones. Well worded and all that, the only giveaway is the link, it's usually a subdomain like ebay.blahblah.com

So I clicked the link and it goes to what looks exactly like an ebay or paypal logon screen. I typed a fake username and password in and here's the genius part, it spits out an "incorrect password" message and then redirects you to the correct logon page. So the user types in their details again, gets in and just assumes they mis-typed the first time, meanwhile your details have already been sent off.

Some of them are tricky, but as Cassini90125 said, no one needs to know or confirm or require you to change your details but you.

I received a fairly official-looking one claiming to be from Ebay a few years ago, asking for a whole wad of personal details. What surrendered the game early on is that they wanted to know not only my email address, but the password to my email account as well. Now, what business could that possibly be of theirs? I didn't stick with it long enough to know if my PIN number was also featured on their list of demands...either way, like hell were they getting anything from me. :madbloo:

Fortunately, my junk mail filter does a reliable job of barring suspect emails from my inbox overall, so all I usually have to worry about are chain emails passed on from "well-intentioned" friends advising me to forward them to ten more unlucky souls in order to get a free hand-out from Bill Gates/save a non-existent sick child dying from cancer/avoid dying a slow and agonising death within the next few days. ::) I covered some of my feelings on the latter in the "Post to Post" thread last week. Such chain emails are a waste of space.

If anyone's interested, they have a whole directory dedicated to individual email scams over on Snopes.com. It makes for a pretty entertaining read: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/scams.asp

I get scam-mail all the time. It's always stuff saying one of the following...

1: You have won $1,000,000 in a foreign lottery!

2: Hello, I'm "So-and-so", and I would like you to be the one to invest in this very profitable venture...

3: This is the "Whozitz" bank and we would like to inform you that some rich person with no family has died. Via a draw, you have been chosen to inherit the fortune.

All of these end with the request of my personal info. Stay away from these turkeys, people.

That sounds funny, actually... I rarely check my email (like I ever get anything important, nobody submitts to my site), so I wouldn't know about these scams.

did this get moved again?

nother one-
RE: HELPING TO FULFIL WILL EXECUTION
Dear Sir,
I send you greetings. Quite aware that we have not previously been
engaged in correspondence, this mail may therefore look astonishing to
you.
But I want to assure that you won't have anything to regret in any way
responding and engaging in some profiting ventures with me as I would
like to divulge in my subsequent mail.
May I ask and receive from you permission to present you as a
beneficiary to the Will of one of my trusted clients? My client and his
whole
family members where involved in the Sharja air crash on the 25th of
July
2004.
Since after this unfortunate incidence, I have not been able to locate
any member of his family to be presented to his bank for claims of his
deposit as the law permits.
On receipt of your response and indicate your willingness to work with
me, I will send to you full details and more information about myself
and the said funds to elicit your better understanding.
As I am yet to get your consent on this issue, I prefer not to divulge
my full identity so as not to risk being disbarred by the British Bar.
Due to the risk involved in disclosing confidential correspondence and
the activities of fraudsters now rampant on the internet, and until I
am sure of your consent, full cooperation and genuine willingness to
offer your assistance for our mutual benefit, I would prefer that we
maintain correspondence by email only. My personal email address is:
nigagric@indiatimes.com
Yours sincerely,
David Adams
nigagric@indiatimes.com
+44 789 283 0902

Any of the scams, I just delete them without even reading them.