SilvrT Posted June 30, 2011 Share #1 Posted June 30, 2011 The scammers will try just about anything ... I can't believe the audacity of this email I got.... --------------------------------------------------------- TELUS WEBMASTER COMMUNICATIONS Upgrade/Maintenance All webmail Accounts Holders We regret to announce to you that we will be making some system maintenance on our TELUS.net Web mail account. During this process you might have login problems in signing into your TELUS.net Web mail account, but to prevent this you have to confirm your account immediately after you receive this notification. To confirm and to keep your TELUS.net web mail active during and after this process, please reply to this message with the below Web mail account information. Failure to do this might cause a permanent deactivation of your Web mail account from our data base to enable us create more spaces for the 2011 session. Send your Web mail account for confirmation stating: *TELUS.net Login ID: * Password: * Date of Birth: Your account shall remain active after you have successfully confirmed your account details. We thank you for your prompt attention to this notification. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect your Web mail account. We apologize for any inconvenience. Powered by telus.net Copyright C 2011 My response.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyinfool Posted June 30, 2011 Share #2 Posted June 30, 2011 Unfortunately the scamers are still in business because there are people dumb enough to fall for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_wells Posted June 30, 2011 Share #3 Posted June 30, 2011 Always remember never give out any personal info in any email request Most companies will never request this info Also never give credit card info for antivirus you have never installed Think about it.. Ride safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eck Posted June 30, 2011 Share #4 Posted June 30, 2011 Your response was "lighter" then mine would have been... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coy55boy Posted June 30, 2011 Share #5 Posted June 30, 2011 What's amazing is that enough people fall for this kind of scam, it keeps these leeches working overtime... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddyRich Posted June 30, 2011 Share #6 Posted June 30, 2011 You should respond to such emails telling them you have forwarded their request to the FBI for further evaluation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreezyRider Posted June 30, 2011 Share #7 Posted June 30, 2011 Normally I just deleted this garbage and go on about my business. However, I occasionally get irritated enough that I actually do reply. I send them false information in the hopes that some jerk will waste a bunch of time sitting at his computer trying to login to a phony email account with false credentials. Just think.....if we all did that everytime we got one of these, the scammers would be so busy following up on phony information that they wouldn't have much time left for sending out new crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibvel Posted June 30, 2011 Share #8 Posted June 30, 2011 I just got an email from my service provider warning me of the exact same scam. Death sentence for scammers and hackers!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stache Posted June 30, 2011 Share #9 Posted June 30, 2011 You should respond to such emails telling them you have forwarded their request to the FBI for further evaluation. The problem with this is it confirms to the scammers that the address is valid and being read. This information is in itself valuable as YOUR address can be added to a list of confirmed addresses, which can be sold to other scammers. Advise regulatory agencies of scams, yeah sure. Respond to the sender in any way? Nope, unless you want to risk increasing the amount of junk you receive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilvrT Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share #10 Posted June 30, 2011 Your response was "lighter" then mine would have been... heh... I didn't really respond ... that was my "response thought.." I just shook my head in wonderment and deleted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyinfool Posted June 30, 2011 Share #11 Posted June 30, 2011 I have a free Gmail account that I use for nothing but to harass scammers. ALL emails that I receive at that account are spam since I never gave it out to anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galapagos Posted June 30, 2011 Share #12 Posted June 30, 2011 Too bad you cant hack into these sites and give them a tap in the kisser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueVenture87 Posted June 30, 2011 Share #13 Posted June 30, 2011 That one is actually funny Tell-us communications ROFLOL! That's better than my forgotten millions in any number of forign banks! -JK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilvrT Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share #14 Posted June 30, 2011 That one is actually funny Tell-us communications ROFLOL! That's better than my forgotten millions in any number of forign banks! -JK In fact, TELUS is our major telephone, internet, and television provider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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