Email Scam?

Nana b
Nana b Member Posts: 3,030 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Did anyone else receive an email that stated more or less

I am 69 years old diagnosed with cancer and leaving 10.5 million dollars to you.....call my lawyer.....


I know it's a scam but wondering if anyone else got the email.

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  • Nana b
    Nana b Member Posts: 3,030 Member
    #2
    Surfed the web
    My gosh this scam has been going on for years, she had to get my info off this board.
  • lisa42
    lisa42 Member Posts: 3,625 Member
    #3
    No,
    not yet, anyhow. Pretty lousy, but people who think up such scams are pretty lousy.
    I think everyone on this board would be wise enough to not fall for such a thing, but apparently, not everyone in the world is so wise, or scams like that wouldn't exist.

    Thanks for the heads up.

    Lisa
  • lizzydavis
    lizzydavis Member Posts: 893
    #4
    lisa42 said:

    No,
    not yet, anyhow. Pretty lousy, but people who think up such scams are pretty lousy.
    I think everyone on this board would be wise enough to not fall for such a thing, but apparently, not everyone in the world is so wise, or scams like that wouldn't exist.

    Thanks for the heads up.

    Lisa

    I haven't received it.
    I haven't received it.

    Lizzy
  • John23
    John23 Member Posts: 2,122 Member
    #5
    Nana....

    Just to let you know.... if it -is- true about that 10.5 .....

    I want you to know, that I always thought you were real cute,
    and I can be single real quick....



    Ya'know....? just sayin'....
  • scouty
    scouty Member Posts: 1,965 Member
    #6
    Not surprised to be honest
    So many here have given their real names, home addresses, phone numbers, and personal email addresses where the whole world can see them. I don't think most realize that whatever we write on this site is public knowledge and if you don't believe me, you should goggle some of the names used and see what you get.

    There is a reason why there is a private email here, use it and please don't write personal info in any of your posts!!! The internet can be cool but it can be very scary too because there are very scary people out there.

    Okay, off my "you have to help protect your privacy" soapbox and John, that was very funny!!
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    #7
    scouty said:

    Not surprised to be honest
    So many here have given their real names, home addresses, phone numbers, and personal email addresses where the whole world can see them. I don't think most realize that whatever we write on this site is public knowledge and if you don't believe me, you should goggle some of the names used and see what you get.

    There is a reason why there is a private email here, use it and please don't write personal info in any of your posts!!! The internet can be cool but it can be very scary too because there are very scary people out there.

    Okay, off my "you have to help protect your privacy" soapbox and John, that was very funny!!

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  • Nana b
    Nana b Member Posts: 3,030 Member
    #8
    John23 said:

    Nana....

    Just to let you know.... if it -is- true about that 10.5 .....

    I want you to know, that I always thought you were real cute,
    and I can be single real quick....



    Ya'know....? just sayin'....

    Aye!
    John, John......
  • PhillieG
    PhillieG Member Posts: 4,866 Member
    #9
    scouty said:

    Not surprised to be honest
    So many here have given their real names, home addresses, phone numbers, and personal email addresses where the whole world can see them. I don't think most realize that whatever we write on this site is public knowledge and if you don't believe me, you should goggle some of the names used and see what you get.

    There is a reason why there is a private email here, use it and please don't write personal info in any of your posts!!! The internet can be cool but it can be very scary too because there are very scary people out there.

    Okay, off my "you have to help protect your privacy" soapbox and John, that was very funny!!

    Exactly
    You're right about that Scouty!
    Some people don't quite understand
    how the internet works and other know it too well
    (AKA Mary Smith, 123 Main St, Anytown USA 12345-6789)
  • John23
    John23 Member Posts: 2,122 Member
    #10
    PhillieG said:

    Exactly
    You're right about that Scouty!
    Some people don't quite understand
    how the internet works and other know it too well
    (AKA Mary Smith, 123 Main St, Anytown USA 12345-6789)

    And then........

    With Google Earth or Bing, anyone can actually see exactly
    where you live, what's in your backyard..... a good route
    to take after they invade your home.....

    Privacy is a thing of the past. Once your data is out there, it can
    never be removed; it is forever cached across the Internet for eternity.

    The WayBack Machine

    If you open a "command" window and type: tracert (space) and a url (csn.cancer.org),
    you will see the computer systems your data goes through, to get from you to there.

    tracert

    Each computer system caches (saves) your data, and at each, it is possible
    for the owner/operator to read that data. (and yes, a good hacker can, also)

    All the Internet is, is a real big telephone "party line".


    There. Feel better now?
  • PGLGreg
    PGLGreg Member Posts: 731
    #11
    I didn't see it.
    Quite possibly I did. I get loads of stuff like that, 20-40 emails a day of spam, but it almost all gets filtered out by two levels of spam/scam/junk email controls. So I don't see it. I use Spam Assassin, which (for one thing) consults a national database of sources of email scams, and Firefox's trainable junk mail system. Both work really well.

    --Greg

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