Fake Email??

[Hunain]

Reply with a Tesco's manager's name, address (in the Scottish highlands or somewhere remote) but give him a pay & go number that you have so when he calls you, you can direct him to Scotland and waste his time

Lol, can always trust you to come up with something twisted!

[Rosaline]

Anyways, guys, I know its spam and a scam mail, i mentioned at the start, i was just curious as to how would it go if I played along being dumb, I just wanted to know of the possibilities, what can the info about ur personal numbers, home address and occupation do in the wrong hands? Plus do people really get scammed this way?

As I said before, the information they ask for is enough for some companies and agencies to authorise more information to be given out. If you are planning to jovially investigate, never give anything remotely truthful.

Sadly real people do get scammed like this regularly. The percentage of people who fall for these e-mails is very low, but the number sent out is so high as to make them worthwhile trying. Be similarly aware of course that identical scams can and do happen by phone, which may feel more safe than when online.

Edit: The wiki article on the most common e-mail scam has too many links to authoritative journalism regarding people who have fallen for these for me to pick any single one to link to, so go look!

Plus how did the Charlie Brown (nice name) guy get my email? Probably from some website I trusted and registered at?

There are a number of good sources available to them. Any website were your e-mail address is in plain text (even if mangled a little, it's not too hard to fix) is of course a good source. The website may well be good, but they could well have hacked in and stolen the information. A very common source is also e-mail address books being read by trojans and the like.

[Howard]

I've tried baiting these people in the past, it's generally not worth the effort

[Hunain]

I've tried baiting these people in the past, it's generally not worth the effort

Lol, share the experience(s) with us please Howard.

[Howard]

They usually just send an email back with similar wording and demands, no matter what I ask them to do

[SiM]

They usually just send an email back with similar wording and demands, no matter what I ask them to do

If you provide them with some incomplete (fake) info, rather than just emailing them questions, you might have some more luck

[Howard]

I did!

Maybe my scammers were just a bit dim

[Rosaline]

This might be of interest to people who have been following this sort of thing...

Internet con targets city church

[Hicks12]

havent had time too read through but they can open a bank accoutn and loads of other accounts in your name, they can request a change of address for say a bank so they can get your card even.

Dont reply too it unless you want to say something "f you come talk too me in person and ill show you pain " xD.

[gtech]

Somewhere along the line a nigerian will be invovled.