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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: robert waddell on May 05, 2012, 10:11:03 am

Title: latest scam
Post by: robert waddell on May 05, 2012, 10:11:03 am
had an e mail alleging to come from HMRC  telling me i have overpaid  £1700 of tax in the last 7 years
do these scamming barstewards really think my head buttons up the back  and more importantly is there anybody George raft enough to click on and give full details of bank account to them
yeah times are hard  but i know what i have paid in tax  i do my own books and accounts and file them myself
maybe they picked the wrong one to target   or maybe i question every joker to much and no longer accept people at face value or who they claim to be       yanies with transits are another pet hate  :farmer:
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: goosepimple on May 05, 2012, 10:54:46 am
Hi Robert, I received a similar thing about 6 months ago - my OH said don't even click on it.  Then about a couple of months ago there was an article in a newspaper about how so many people had fallen for it and advising people not to click on it.  But in the meantime, they had managed to screw a lot of people out of what totalled up as an astronomical amount of money.  How much time do these people have on their hands to sit and think up such schemes, obvously don't keep livestock.  >:(
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: Bionic on May 05, 2012, 10:59:45 am
I have had a similar scam and also was wise enough not to click on the link.

Robert, what are yanies?

Sally
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: oink on May 05, 2012, 11:05:23 am
Sounds to me like you guys are missing out on a windfall.

I'm not so foolish, it turns out I'm related to the king of Nigeria and if I just pay for his flight to the UK he'll give me half of his kingdom!
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: goosepimple on May 05, 2012, 11:06:03 am
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: robert waddell on May 05, 2012, 11:12:26 am
bionic yanies= Gypsy's     but not the real ones the ones that use the persecution of the Gypsy's to rob and steal :farmer:
oink it used to be African virgins that contacted me offering half there fortunes to escape there oppressive family
the amount of them that had whole entire family's killed there cant be many left in Africa :farmer:
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: lill on May 05, 2012, 04:22:57 pm
a wee thought springs to mind here Robert, you should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, oh but yae can dream.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: mcginty on May 05, 2012, 11:44:23 pm
Scam don't talk to me about scams.
What about this one.
A local business man  put a ad in the local newspapers offerings £1500 reward for the return
of his stolen tractor.
Looking for sheep, i came on the tractor in a old farm building, i reported this to the police and
the owner, he got his tractor back.
Did i get my reward, not a chance, not even a thanks or a small fraction of the money.
The lesson learned, if it does not concern yourself, walk on.
As thy say, turn A BLIND EYE.
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: Small Farmer on May 05, 2012, 11:48:54 pm
There was a contract - offer, acceptance and consideration - so why no payment?
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: mcginty on May 06, 2012, 12:04:20 am
I have made contact with this scamster,
so called business man.
With no responce.
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: bazzais on May 06, 2012, 03:07:48 am
Small claims court - you have all the evidence.



It amazes me that some 'companies/organisations' can continue to defraud again again and again.

It will also probably amaze me that the new legislation that is soon to come in that orders isps as law to record every single thing you email, post on a forum, webpage visited, facebook posts, facebook messages, emails, twitter, download - every bit of data you send and what it contains recorded - will still not help with any internet scams like this as its aimed at us as consumers and not at fraudsters who are a million miles ahead.
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: Castle Farm on May 06, 2012, 07:35:38 am
I went to an auction yesterday and bought 6 feed troughs and a round bale feeder for sheep.

Over £70 in vat and other taxes.

Now thats a scam. This bloody goverment are sucking us dry and we don't seem to be getting any better.
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: jaykay on May 06, 2012, 08:13:22 am
I keep getting an email saying they've temporarily frozen my bank account. I believed it the first time, given the state of my finances recently. But fortunately I was so fraught about it I rang them rather than clicked on it. Turns out it's a scam and wants all your details and security to 'prove it's you before we unlock the account'  >:(
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: Bionic on May 06, 2012, 08:15:15 am
Jaykay, I quite often get those too but usually from banks I don't have an account with  ;D
So thats an easy scam to deal with. Delete, delete, delete
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: Moleskins on May 06, 2012, 09:05:58 am
419 scam eater
some of them are hilarious.
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album.php (http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album.php)
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: Small Farmer on May 06, 2012, 09:16:12 am
It was in 1979 that I saw the first of what came to be known as advance fee frauds - where someone has an account with a huge amount of money that can only be released to you.   I wish I still had it: it was handwritten in three different colours for emphasis and had us all creased up.

When Ferdinand Marcos was deposed there was a a stream of letters asking for help in dealing with the 100 tonnes of gold that was allegedly held in his name.

The arrival of email just widens the target audience - the gullible and the careless. 
Title: Re: latest scam
Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 06, 2012, 03:40:20 pm
Jaykay, I quite often get those too but usually from banks I don't have an account with  ;D
So thats an easy scam to deal with. Delete, delete, delete

Same here.

I advertise as a private tutor and I used to get a lot of emails from people who wanted me to teach their son/daughter  English for several hours a week over several weeks.  They would pay me a large sum of money for tuition and accommodation if I sent them my bank details.  Oh yeah!