New Scam Be careful

I received a similar email and forwarded it to the phising email at the IRS but have not heard anything bank from it. It did look pretty official with the IRS logo at the top.

Wow...Kash...there are scams like this all over the net...I even got one like that one time from paypal...asking to verify my info...instead of hitting the link..I closed and went to paypal and there were no requests there at all...we all need to be very careful with all this internet stuff!!! Thanks for telling us about that one!!

Morning, I cant believe that some people do fall for these things. too bad we cant warn every one.

Moto, Sorry if im a bit dumb today , what does phising mean??

Kash - Phishing is a type of e-mail scam designed to steal your identity. If you reply with account numbers and such then they use this to steal from you. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

I did read on their website that this scam was going on. Thank god you didn't fall for that crap. It makes me mad because so many older people are going to be falling for that :twisted:

ladybug

You are right motomom...

I wish there were more warnings out too...I feel bad for people who aren't as knowledgeable about computers and don't realize what they are giving away...of course look what we did to with the ipdls...I am so much more cautious now!!!

It really is sad. If someone is desperate enough they will fall for it and potentialy lose everything. Horrible part is that there is nothing more we can do to warn people. We get good safe info here, but what about the people who dont know about us?

OMG!! I just recieved an e-mail, just like that yesterday!! Nope..i din't answer it. Wow...what people will do, to take advantage of other people, is scary.

One of the sites I use to verify stuff is called: snopes.com....it covers just about every type of scam or mis info on the net.

I also got the one this week where I won $500,000 but needed to send $460 for insurance. I told them to deduct the insurance money and put the check in the mail. HA HA

Very funny...let me know if you get it...LOL

i think that because of this site we are all educated enough to know not to give our banking info to anyone.Hiwever I do have to say, that even before this site i doubt if I would have given out my info Oh Yeah I gave it to ipdls ,but for some reason I didnt believe them to be scams. Wow was I nuts.

No you were not nuts...we all did it...and I didn't see anything wrong with it at first either...not until I couldn't get out and tried to contact them for help...we learned a very valuable lesson...

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=173424,00.html

Here is the link from the IRS with the warning and more details....

Our office is on alert for these emails and they are not pdl related.

Volley, Thanks for the link. So now there are two IRS scams. The one you posted the linl for , and the one I received about my "REFUND"Its good to alert people to these things

No problem...the least I could do after all of the help i am getting on this board.

Phishing involves a"shell" site that looks like an official site (ie-IRS, etc.) but the site you would be entering your info on is actually a front site of identity thieves.

I got one from regarding paypal and that someone was going to to put money into the account -- and every once in awhile I get emails from Citibank - I don't have an account there - My motto is when in doubt - throw it out -

yeah, every once and a while i get something from US Bank wanting to verify my account details. I do believe that it is from a PDL. Remember the threads with people being harassed by US Bank?

debs812-That is the best motto...

I work with a lot with Information Security and I gotta tell you, if you dont have an account with a bank or anyone else DO NOT GIVE YOUR ACCOUNT INFO TO ANYONE. It will look legit...logos and everything.

The IRS and Ebay scam have been around for a while, and are starting to re-surface. Always report them to the IRS and to EBay so they can look into it. If it isn't reported, these loosers will keep on doing it, and someone will fall for it.

Some poor eldery lady here was on the news a few weeks ago, and had fallen for the famous lottery scam, and lost alot of her money.

Any time someone wants your banking info, personal info, etc., to "give" you money is a big fat scam!!

Like my granny used to say "If it sounds too good to be true- it probaly is"!! KAren

YOu said it Karen. I am so careful and paranoid now about everything I get in E Mail. All of a sudden now(after a long period of none)I am once again getting e mail offers for PDLS. These I am very paranoid about, I wonder if they are sister compnies of the ones I defaulted on trying to get my new info. I dont put anything past these people.They will NEVER get me again

That was me Kash. As usual I forgot to sign in

I know what you mean! I got a letter from a PDL place here and said they wanted me to have a great holiday weekend, and to come in and they would loan me the money!! I get postcards every 10 days since I paid them off saying they miss me( I bet they do) and are waiting with some money for me!! Don't think so!!..KAren

OH....wanted to 'add' to the 'scam thing'. PayPal is using e-mails, too. Of course, it's NOT really PP. According to the e-mail, " someone has been added to my account. To change your account ID and password, please click here." I'm sure some of you have gotten one, from time to time. Just thought i would warn ya'll!!

The IRS issued a warning that there is also an Email scam that is asking people to fill out a survey and be reimbursed. They are also asking for your bank info.....

Great......... I've gotten all the scam emails (ho hum) but the IRS is a new one on me! I can't wait to get that one! I've gotten the E-Bay ones, the PayPal ones, the lottery ones, blah, blah. I've gotten emails from pdl's (that I didn't even pay off) offering me money, blah, blah. Good Lord. I think we've all learned our lesson the hard way. But, boy, these scams are getting wild any more. Of course, we all know not to give anyone our bank account information. I'll be damned if I do! However, like stated above, what about all these people who don't have a clue? How sad. And I've gotten to the point to where I just delete everything. I read who it's from. If it's not from someone I know, I delete it. If my bank, PayPal, EBay, or whoever else wants something from me, I know I can log on to my account and see if there are any messages. But a lot of people don't know this.

Yesterday I won 6.5 millin in the Spanish lottery.
I will share it all with you guys, but first I need to go to the bank for the Nigerian people who want me to deposit money in my account for them. I get 10% of it !!!!. Then off to my bank to deposit my IRS "refund"
Oh wait, they will deposit it for me if i give them my account info.

Kash - You only get you lottery winnings after you contact the lawyer for the long lost relative in Berma who has died and left you 20 million dollars. You only need to pay the 6500.00 taxes, through your acccount directly to him so he can pay the Bermese government for you. :lol:

oh Roxy, how foolish of me. I was so excited about the spanish lottery, and the Nigerian job offer, I completely forgot about the Bermese realitive that left me tons of money. Its saturday, so I cant contact the lawyer, but at least my bank is open so I can get the Nigerians taken care of

If you need a loan let me know , my relative left me 10 million and I am sure I can spare some for you. I can call them on the phone card I received at a reduced rate of 50.00 per month

Are you licensed in my state?
What are your fees, and how many rollovers am I allowed?

so what are we talking about here, a scam?

I have been hit with so many scam & phishing e-mails, it's pathetic. I actually had one that tried to go through with it by sending me a fake money order from the Phillipines. I called the Wal Mart money order issuing company (and yes, it looked every bit like a REAL Wal Mart money order, complete with watermark and fine print), confirmed it was fake, and turned the whole shebang over to the FBI, including both ends of the e-mail correspondence from this jerk.

All the banks in our area now have signs at the teller windows and drive-thru's that have a huge red stop sign on them, and detail this scam. They will not accept money orders from out of the country anymore, and if it somehow slips through and gets cashed or deposited in your account, and you draw funds from it, YOU are on the hook for the money when it comes back as fake...plus any fees incurred.

be careful out there folks.

That lawyer thing I was teasing Kash about really happened to my whole family. The person(?) contacted the 6 children in my husband's family. One of them responded that they knew this was a scam and to stop contacting the family members and they continued. He got so tired of it (we were getting 10 - 20 e-mails per day) he turned it over to the FBI.

It is getting so bad with these scams..something as simple as using coupons in the grocery store is becomming a problem becuase of the scams. I do not get the newspaper but have signed up to receive the coupon section via e-mail...the stores will not take them any more...they said there are too many forged ones. Ok...I am so deperate I am going to forge a coupon for .50 off of two boxes of Cheerios.

The only thing that's ever happened to me was when I answered an ad for mystery shoppers last year and got a fake cashier's check for two grand made out to myself. I was told to cash it at my bank and then wire the proceeds to an address in Canada, keeping part of it for myself.
After I called the bank in Florida that it was drawn on to verify funds, I was told that they had stopped doing cashier's checks months ago and to report it to the police, which I did. Scary. I also researched this outfit on the net and found scads of stories from people who had been ripped off! The moral of this story is, if it sounds too good to be true, it is!

Luke
yes, its about scAMS WE RECEIVED

One of our local stations here had the IRS scam featured on their news broadcast. But like the rest of you, I have had the paypal scam (don't have a paypal account), the ebay scam (haven't been on ebay for a few years so don't even know if my account works), the lottery scams, I have been left "millions" from someone overseas to use for God's work, I have even had banks email me about my account (banks I don't even have accounts with), plus because of my outstanding payment history, I have been offered up to $5000 from some payday loan places, (which we all know that they are the reason I came here to start with). So, I guess at this point, my paypal account it locked, my ebay account is locked, I guess I have forfieted all my lottery earnings and I guess those people who left me in their will figure they need to leave their money to someone else. :wink:

I am glad to know I am not alone... again.....I get so many emails from the UK offering me jobs, leaving me in their wills, asking me for help transfering funds, etc. Just for fun I have started replying in large bold red letters....STOP SENDING ME THIS ----. It may not stop them but it makes me feel better...

I replied to one in UK
Sorry I would love to help, but the Nigerians got to me first"

:lol: at Roxy- yeah I thought that was pretty wild too. I had an online coupon for cat food for .75 and the cashies treated me like I was a member of Al-Queida!! I told her, for petes' sake throw it away if you don't accept it- but no-she called the manager!There were a dozen people behind me, and I told her I would pay .75 more if she would just continue to ring up my groceries. If I was goinmg to pull a scam it would be for more than .75 :lol: Karen

Hey...like the motto says.."if it sounds too good to be true..it usually is.." I always keep that in mind as I go through my e-mail. I also believe I have accumulated so much e-mail because of my involvement with PDL's. I blame them for giving out my info to everyone!

That's a possilbility for sure Laura...I know sinbce I have been working on my ipdls I am very causious of what info I give out and to whom...

Yes..I believe one of them gave my information to a company called JFYC..which is a marketing company. I posted my story on this site under that company name. They tried to get money from my account...a total scam.

I really do not give any info to anyone. I have even stopped buying on the internet. I may be paranoid, but I feel it os better to be safe than sorry

That was me Kash. I forgot to sign in. I do that so many times I should change my screen name to "Guest"

You are right..I am done with PDL's (had to learn the hard way) and I too will not give anyone on the internet my personal info. There is no reason for them to have it other than to sell it..that's the way I look at it.

That's right, laura. I think we've all learned the hard way. The real hard way! :wink:

I know this whole situation has made me very cautious..with everything..even shopping on line, which I did alot of. However, if one could say some "good" has come of this, I would say becomming educated and finding this fourm being helped and helping others in this situation as well as finding the strength to dig myself out of this mess has been "good".

roxy, who you telling? I find myself giving people advice about the law. Ummm.... they're looking at me like "How do you know this stuff?" LOL! :lol: I thank God this site exists. I was soooo stupid before I found it. Laws? Oh, there were laws? Honestly! "What? You mean they're illegal?" My gosh. I suck up everything I can on this site. I was absolutely amazed that there are laws and that I actually had something on "my side" and I didn't have to suffer through the endless nightmare until I was buried in the ground! And when posting to help others who just found us, remember that feeling when you first came. How horrible it was and how wonderful it was when people actually stepped up to help. That's what keeps me going. If we can help even one person see the light, we are doing good.

Well..and I have told you this before..this site certainly saved me..and I do remember every time that someone new posts, especially when I can feel the desperation in their words. I did not realize how bad off I was until I received my first reply and sat there and cried tears of relief...Those that have been involved with me have set the bar really high and I read and try to absorb all I can so maybe someday I can do for someone what you all have done for me. Ok..enough of the sappy stuff.