jonny777 Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 It obviously pays them to send emails or ring. Nobody, even criminals , works for nothing. That they pray on the most vulnerable makes the crime worse in decent people's minds. Exactly. I heard a radio interview with an anonymous scammer some years ago, who said that his computers will send out about 10 million emails an night to every combination of numbers and letters the computer generates. He was quite happy to have just a 0.001% response rate, because that would mean a hundred positive chances of clearing out someone's savings per day. I think you may be able to do the monetary sums yourself; and work out the potential for accumulating a cash mountain in a relatively short space of time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted October 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2018 City of London Police are the lead force for dealing with computer crime. You can (should?) forward any suspect e-mails to them. I would be spending most of each day forwarding them. It's easier to let the junk filters deal with them. If I reported them all on here, I'd have a bigger post count than even the most prolific spammers posters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 You mean you want it from Denise rather than Dennis? No. More that the name of the sender will be a totally different name such as Lydia and the name in the email will be Katya. There will be a dozen of them arriving within a couple of days all with different girls names mostly East European or Asian sounding. But the wording of the email itself will be identical. They certainly don't put any effort into making it seem genuine. They are obviously trying to attract vulnerable middle aged blokes who are looking for those types of women. If that's what you want then there are far better ways of finding them than replying to random emails. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted October 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2018 If that's what you want then there are far better ways of finding them than replying to random emails. Oh, do tell. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted October 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2018 My junk email box recently seems to be mostly full of spam with a title something along the lines of "Confirm your unsubscribe now please" - I'm assuming they're phishing based on the recent GDPR changes. At the moment there's about half a dozen in there, all with my own name as the sender, which really confuses me - do they think I'll somehow presume that I sent an email to myself without knowing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 (edited) City of London Police are the lead force for dealing with computer crime. You can (should?) forward any suspect e-mails to them. Do they have an e-mail address you forward the suspect e-mails to? Don't worry, I've found it! NFIBPhishing@city-of-london.pnn.police.uk Edited October 12, 2018 by jcm@gwr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted October 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2018 Do they have an e-mail address you forward the suspect e-mails to? Don't worry, I've found it! NFIBPhishing@city-of-london.pnn.police.uk NFIB No Further Investigation Bureau? Other than storing and making an occasional report. No disrespect intended, its just an impossible task, as the spammers vastly outnumber any sensible number of investigators. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Just had a text telling me that my paypal account has been temporarily suspended! and if I dont confirm my id today it will be closed. Only problem with that is I dont have one And now its my Apple account that will be closed tomorrow! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 It seems my direct debit has bounced for my TV Licence, on a payment card that I pay weekly with cash! Also, they appear to be trying to save money by out-sourcing the office, to Japan! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted October 19, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2018 It seems my direct debit has bounced for my TV Licence, on a payment card that I pay weekly with cash! Also, they appear to be trying to save money by out-sourcing the office, to Japan! We can but hope for another series of 'Banzai' 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soony Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 And there's another TV Licence spam email doing the rounds , saying your TV Licence expired yesterday and you you need to renew now . How convenient is it that there is a box for your bank details for you to renew... How do I know its fake --- TV Licences expire on the last day of a month, not in the period between, like 4th December Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 There are also TV Licensing scams going around. Delete. Is that the one that says you need a licence to watch videos on iPlayer? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted December 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 5, 2018 NFIB No Further Investigation Bureau? Other than storing and making an occasional report. No disrespect intended, its just an impossible task, as the spammers vastly outnumber any sensible number of investigators. Depends really. If the investigators have got decent spam filters up their workload shouldn't be that high 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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