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I mean no disrespect to you, Ellie, but I am laughing like a jerk over here after seeing this. As for the "Pomtzu Soup", with Michele Obama being so obsessed with nutrition I can't help but wonder if she signed off on that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
Eileen - laugh till you bust a gut !!! :D I still laugh whenever I think of it. The reference to me being in SOUP (yes-they even capitalized it in their mail), was what put this one over the top. Of course my life has never been threatened before either............but SOUP????? Oh my.....:eek: And of course you noticed the goon squad never showed up last Thursday morning to arrest me and haul me off to who knows where, as they promised they would. Geeze - can't believe anyone anymore - can we??? - not even our President. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by momcat
Is this spam? I just got it this morning. Thanksgiving is long over with!!!
"As Thanksgiving nears we want to advise you that our online shop has an order addressed to you. You may pick it in any store of Target.com closest to you within four days.
Please, open the link for full order information.
Always yours,
Target.com "
I have never ordered from Target in my life. Well, I did order some cat food from Amazon.com almost a year ago. It was shipped from a Target store in Texas. The wording of this seems odd to me. Besides we have no Target store here or any where close to here. Sounds phishie to me. sheesh
Not gonna click on the link just in case!
Absolutely - I get things like that from the UPS store, and Fedex, and am still getting lots of "Your Recent Walgreens visit" ones!Quote:
Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces
I get lots of "spam alert" and "over-usage" messages from "AOL" (the real AOL is my e-mail service) sent from gmail accounts and such, complete with bad grammar and spelling.
[QUOTE=momoffuzzyfaces;2511978]Is this spam? I just got it this morning. Thanksgiving is long over with!!!
"As Thanksgiving nears we want to advise you that our online shop has an order addressed to you. You may pick it in any store of Target.com closest to you within four days.
Please, open the link for full order information.
Always yours,
Target.com "
I have never ordered from Target in my life. Well, I did order some cat food from Amazon.com almost a year ago. It was shipped from a Target store in Texas. The wording of this seems odd to me. Besides we have no Target store here or any where close to here. Sounds phishie to me. sheesh
Not gonna click on the link just in case![/QUOT
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I got one similar to this in my morning mail. It was from Walgreen's, and I had an e-gift waiting at the store. Just click the link for instructions on how to retrieve it.
Yeah - sure. And did you know too, that pigs fly??????????????:rolleyes: I should stop by the W in town next time I go by there, and ask them where my gift is. Gee - wouldn't you think that they would have called my phone, or just snail mailed it to me, since they have that info on file in the pharmacy department?????
To all of you! Whatever great offers you get from ANYONE, don't ever open the link. If you feel unsure about something, look up the company, give them a ring and ask!
Once you click on a link, they'll know the e-mail address is valid.
Another thing to be cautious of: a link that supposedly comes from someone on your contact list. This is often malware. Contact them with a fresh email and ask if they sent it; if not advise them to change their password. My account gets hacked if I don't change may password often enough and I get email like, "did you send me this real estate link?" and it's a big fat NO. And I go change my password!
I get one every so often, that appears that it is from my granddaughter's other grandmother, since she is on my contact list. It's a strange and bizarre mail and I know it's not from her. I mailed her about it after the first one, but evidently she did nothing about it, since I got another several months later. Oh well... :rolleyes:
And opening links - doesn't happen with me. I'm leery about opening ANY - even ones on here - and definitely ones on FB. :eek:
If something sounds too good to be true - it most likely is not
Okay, spammers are getting more and more creative - American Idol season is beginning - so now there are ones promising to teach you how to sing, or improve your singing!!!! And more evil options - stopping tintinitus, restoring hearing loss - things medical science either does not know how to do much of the time (for the former) or has so many causes, some completely untreatable (the latter). As Baby Boomers age I expect more arthritis spam to begin to appear ...
My dad has been getting weird phone calls from someone saying "you have a criminal investigation against you. if you do not call back its a federal crime and we will not be able to help you" something to that extent anyway. yet my dad hasnt received an summons. hmmm :rolleyes:
What is really funny is, we do still sometimes get junk mail in the "snail mail" form, and Paul got one yesterday that we knew was junk mail before he even opened it, as it was addressed to his actual first name, instead of Paul - which he has used his whole life. But inside the very plain envelope, without any return address, was a piece of paper that clammed they sent it "registered mail, return receipt requested" and was in a badly designed typewriter type font, it look official, I guess.
Okay, lately, I have been getting a lot of "iPhone tracking Ap" and similar spam emails, claiming to be able to help people find lost items using their phone. But the person I know who most often loses things loses his phone more often than anything else! An Ap ain't gonna help!
Big in spam the past couple weeks - solar panel/solar energy promotions.
Do they not do any geographic targeting? With the wether we have had lately, solar panels would be not terribly effective, and if you didn;t install them at a steep angel, you'd have to shovel/brush the snow off every storm!
Be careful filing your taxes using Turbo Tax. Apparently there have been fraudulent refunds claimed through their web site. Also the hoary old call from the IRS.
I think spammers have started using Pet talk to reach us! I got the following in my email:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL!
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Dear momoffuzzyfaces,
You have received a new private message at Pet Talk from Supermom21, entitled "Hi!".
To read the original version, respond to, or delete this message, you must log in here:
http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/private.php
This is the message that was sent:
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We've turned over every rock and reveal the easy-to-follow secret tactics that will guarantee you fetch your own share of the $65 billion dollar pet industry... Starting from scratch on a shoe-string budget. Get to know more on the http://make-money-pets.net.tf
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Again, please do not reply to this email. You must go to the following page to reply to this private message:
http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/private.php
All the best,
Pet Talk
I do not know this person and for sure will not open any messages from them. I read this in my email but will delete it off my private messages unopened!!!
Hi MoFF - I got the same one this morning, reported it to Karen immediately.
And I blocked the user as soon as I saw it, but obviously it was done programatically, so hundreds were done before I could ban him/her.Quote:
Originally Posted by momcat
Hit them with your ban hammer!:D
Already done!Quote:
Originally Posted by smokey the elder
I haven't even had the computer turned on in the past couple of weeks or so, so imagine my surprise when I checked my Google emails this a.m., and there was a mail sent to me from my Dad. Yup - the sender was "Dad J--------" with even the last name - a rather long and not at all common Italian name beginning with "J", being spelled correctly. He asked how i was doing, and provided a link for me to view.
WOW - just amazing - considering that my Dad passed away in 1973 - which itself was years before the age of a computer in every home- and my Dad wouldn't have known one end of a computer from the other anyway.
Don't these idiots EVER quit????????????? :rolleyes:
A new low...
Now this is one very different one-- disgusting to go that far. How low do these spammers crawl I wonder?
Okay, one of the newest subjects of spam coming to my email - "Your auto warranty is expiring ..." uh, folks, my car is 12+ years old. It has over 186,000 miles on it. Its warrantee expired probably before you learned to type, never mind send spam!
I get all kinds of paper spam (junk mail) about that. Even my newer car: I bought the extended motor/tranny warrantee (it's a hybrid), and still get mails from faux Toyota dealerships.
I got one in the mail yesterday, a note from Grandma Rosa saying she chose me because I'm a good person with a good heart and I was born good but someone or something took my luck away. But she will get my luck back for free. To get 7 lucky numbers, an old time magic money charm, a few surprise gifts, and an additional $1000 to my social security check all I have to do is send $9.99 to a P.O. box in Denver. By the way, the note I got is postmarked Romania.
Guess creeps consider ripping people off their job. Guess they are too lazy to get a real one.
Not to give them an excuse, in some places, jobs can be hard to find. Not that that is an excuse, but I do understand that part.Quote:
Originally Posted by mon
I got a "prize" card in the mail..."You've won two plane tickets!" Oh really? I don't remember entering any contest: straight into the recycle with you.
That part is neat - I'd save the postmark! How much postage did it take to get to you from Romania?Quote:
Originally Posted by momcat
I keep getting e-mails to my AOL e-mail account saying my inbox is full or some such, and to click on such-and-such link to "fix" that. Uh-huh. And it's "signed" something like AOL Security Team.
One thing I wonder is, how come so many of these message from "AOL's Security Team" or whatever come from yahoo.com or gmail.com addresses? And there are a lot that come from shaw.ca.
If you look at the actual headers, most do not originate from those addresses, but they spoof it to make it look like something you would find credible, and so click to open! That is also why you will sometimes see things in your mailbox that look like they are coming from someone you know, but are not actually from them!Quote:
Originally Posted by phesina
Okay - no lie!
I just in my email, two in a row that read:
From/Subject
A little Hanky Panky / Want to Have a Secret Affair? Per....
Email Lookup / Are You Being Cheated on?
Ha!
Okay, next target seems to be hearing loss - I actually am now getting spam that not only claims to have the cure for tintinnitus - but "reverse your hearing loss" and one subject line even said, "Learn how Marlee Matin restored her hearing ..." Hello? Like it would have made scientific headlines AND entertainment ones if the only well-known deaf actress could suddenly hear?
Let's see, we've ticked off
eye trouble
Alzheimers
Diabetes
Weight loss has been a perennial one, as had
"Erectile"issues
now
Hearing loss ....
What's next? Yes, we know the Baby Boomers are aging ...
Oh, and lest I forget - even when I owned a house, I did not have a garage, never mind a garage floor! Quit trying to sell me stuff to beautify that which does not exist!
Facebook is another tasty target. I've been getting "friend" requests from folks I don't know from Adam's off ox, so into the delete bin they go! Be careful clicking videos or links in FB; they can harbor malware, too.
Oh, and lately I have also been getting Adoption spam. I think of families desperate for a child who might fall for it, and are very sad for them!
Apparently these jokers never give up. I've been getting emails two or three times a week telling me I have millions of dollars from a relative in Romania or Zimbabwe or London and a number of other exotic locations who passed away without a will and I'm the only relative to be located. Yeah, right. Mom's family is from Poland and Dad's is from Ireland. A friend on the police force says there really isn't anything they can do about it. These things aren't even funny anymore.
Evidently I left Diplomatic luggage on a flight...
Funny, I'm not a diplo and haven't flown anywhere in a dog's age.