SCAM TEXT ALERT!

[Whofan]

12 minutes ago, Skodadriver said:

Provided it was set up through the Funeral Directors it will be legit. Wearing my other hat as a church organist, we livestream our Sunday services and will stream a funeral service if requested. That is done using the church's own equipment and there is never any charge for it. I don't know what happens at the local crematorium or the various funeral homes but presumably similar arrangements apply. 

 

I'll be going back to that message (it was about a week ago) and see if it is from the funeral directors. Thanks for this.

[Skodadriver]

You might find this helpful @Whofan .  I forgot to include the link in my earlier post.

[Whofan]

1 hour ago, Skodadriver said:

You might find this helpful @Whofan .  I forgot to include the link in my earlier post.

 

Thanks, helpful indeed. 

 

[Alfisti]

Its been a busy few days for the scammers leading upto Christmas,quite a few scam emails this past week.The latestest,and a new one on me,in fact I had 4 scam emails,2 yesterday and 2 today,Postcode Lottery advent calender.Hovered over the reply link,totally unrecognizable address.My computer warned it was a possible scam and an unsafe web link.

[John_W]

Had a few recently "we need more information to deliver your parcel" they seem to multiply around Christmas.

Having a spate of emails from @uts.edu.au. The @ address is a genuine Australian University, looks like someone has hacked their email system.

[Admiral Puff]

2 hours ago, John_W said:

Had a few recently "we need more information to deliver your parcel" they seem to multiply around Christmas.

Having a spate of emails from @uts.edu.au. The @ address is a genuine Australian University, looks like someone has hacked their email system.

"UTS" is the University of Technology, Sydney - definitely a genuine institution. Used to be Sydney Technical College, where I had lectures for the theory subjects for the Australian Commercial Pilot's Licence. I doubt that it would be seeking to deliver parcels, though ...

[Whofan]

On 20/12/2024 at 19:43, Alfisti said:

The latestest,and a new one on me,in fact I had 4 scam emails,2 yesterday and 2 today,Postcode Lottery advent calender.Hovered over the reply link,totally unrecognizable address.

Funnily enough I had the postcode lottery advent calendar email yesterday, too.

Just marked it as spam and deleted it.

[flyboy2610]

8 hours ago, John_W said:

Had a few recently "we need more information to deliver your parcel" they seem to multiply around Christmas.

Having a spate of emails from @uts.edu.au. The @ address is a genuine Australian University, looks like someone has hacked their email system.

I get those parcel emails all the time. I send them to the spam folder, then delete them.

[Alfisti]

Just had a scam text purporting to be from tiktok.They state they were impressed with my CV,what CV?????,and they would like me to join as a partner and earn beteween £200 and £500 per day.Yeah,right😅😂🤣😡🤬.2 words,and the second one is OFF.

[Noel Smith]

On Jeremy Vine'x  Radio 2 show recently he was featuring a piece of AI technology set up to imitate an elderly lady who on the face of it was made to sound a bit doddery. The AI avatar is designed to keep scammers on the phone by pretending to press wrong keys, not hearing what the scammer said and constantly asking them to repeat what they just said, taking about fictitious grankids, pets etc. Anything to waste their time.  Brilliant !

He played some of it back and you could hear the scammer getting frustrated and irritated by the minute.    Pure genius !

Edited January 19 by Noel Smith

[Whofan]

The never ending attempts by scammers to part us from our money has taken an interesting twist.

 

I've been receiving a number of emails inviting me to variously claim my new M & S hamper, renew my subscription to various anti virus programmes, etc., all of them from email addresses nothing to do with the subject eg a supposed M & S email telling me I'd won a hamper came from Refinery29.com.

 

Whewn I mark them as spam and go to delete these I get a warning message telling these are newsletters, do I still want to mark them as spam?

 

The answer is of course, yes, but I find it interesting.that the scammers are disguising the emails as newsletters.

 

Has anyone else received any of these?

[psdavidson]

1 hour ago, Whofan said:

Has anyone else received any of these?

Yup, even from "Cadbury's"

[Whofan]

20 minutes ago, psdavidson said:

Yup, even from "Cadbury's"

Oh wow, Cadbury's!

 

Offering you Easter eggs, or a hamper of chocolate?

[psdavidson]

50 minutes ago, Whofan said:

Offering you Easter eggs, or a hamper of chocolate?

I think it was a Ninja Air Fryer, or was that someone else

[ArnoldAmbrose]

G'day, my wife has an air fryer. I didn't know that you could cook chocolate with it. 😁 Regards, Jeff.

[treker_ed]

Since our enforced switch from BT as our internet provider, to EE, on our renewal of our broadband and phone contract (they are transferring ALL domestic customers over apparently as they come up for renewal.....), the amount of spam emails I've been getting is ridiculous. On Saturday I had 30 of the damn things in one hit. Of the many things to be said about BT, their spam filter before even getting to my inbox was excellent. Never got a single one. Since switching to EE, must get over 200 a week!😡

[Alfisti]

On one of the morning TV shows,they were explaining about the increase in AI scams and the lengths that some scammers will go to to get our money.A woman had emailed the show saying that she belonged to the Cold Play fan club.She'd had 42 emails(scam) from 42 different Chris Martin's asking for financial help as he was now destitute.