[robert waddell]

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 

[goosepimple]

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. 

[Bionic]

I have had a similar scam and also was wise enough not to click on the link.

Robert, what are yanies?

Sally

[oink]

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!

[goosepimple]

 

[robert waddell]

bionic yanies= Gypsy's     but not the real ones the ones that use the persecution of the Gypsy's to rob and steal
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

[lill]

a wee thought springs to mind here Robert, you should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, oh but yae can dream. 

[mcginty]

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.

[Small Farmer]

There was a contract - offer, acceptance and consideration - so why no payment?

[mcginty]

I have made contact with this scamster,
so called business man.
With no responce.

[bazzais]

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.

[Castle Farm]

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.

[jaykay]

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' 

[Bionic]

Jaykay, I quite often get those too but usually from banks I don't have an account with 
So thats an easy scam to deal with. Delete, delete, delete

[Moleskins]

419 scam eater
some of them are hilarious.
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album.php