Scam? Curious...

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Permalink Reply by GirlRiders on December 1, 2011 at 8:28pm

I haven't seen that one before.

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Permalink Reply by ShineOnMS on December 1, 2011 at 8:52pm

Hi jen 

I have seen this before and ive had others similar emails i seem to get them from African and Nigerian senders  - it  was sent to my Shine on Scotland campaign email. Thankfully as i get so much spam for help and donations etc that gmail spammed it - but wow you don't half  get some scams !

I have another about a well known UK charity / foundation announcing that you have been awarded a grant I will forward it so you can pass on to any non profits in your network !

Ning should build a ning ban list so we can all share the email addresses of potential spammers !

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Permalink Reply by ShineOnMS on December 1, 2011 at 8:56pm

soz the purpose is they use a app to scan your contact's and grab your list, simply answer it in anyway or sometimes even if you open it to say F*** OFF they have all your email contacts, facebook and twitter account details 

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Permalink Reply by JenSocial on December 1, 2011 at 9:01pm

Thanks Katie and Ryan.

Ryan, yeah good point on just answering, which of course I would never do. But seems there's more to this than just harvesting email accounts, but I can't figure this one out. I think it may have something to do with trying to capture paypal details, but who knows?

Thanks again for your input.

Best,

Jen

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Permalink Reply by Max Power on March 3, 2012 at 8:49pm

Also with alot of email scams they tell you to click a link to get the money or something and the link that you click on sends you to an address that puts a visrus onto your computer so that they can get all your details.

 

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Permalink Reply by JenSocial on March 3, 2012 at 10:00pm

Good point.

=)

Best Regards,

Jen

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