Beware everyone.

[Sr. Melangell]

I know a lot of you can spot a fake email straight away, for those of you who don’t there is a very easy way to find out, when you get these, usually the sender sends you an official looking email with a senders email like, ‘bluebutterfliesinfields@computerserver.com’ 

Another way of telling is when someone emails you and says. ‘Hi I have $3,280,000 I want to give it all to you.’ I’m sure that if you get an email from someone you don’t know and they don’t you either, you would know it is fake.

Another one they try is ‘Dear ‘John Smith’ (Use a common name.) to get your attention, make you think ‘What is this?’ and ‘Who is John?’

Also they might put that a relative has passed away in a faraway country and left you loads of money and his mansion  in his will, I keep getting one like this and they use the same name, its being going on for 5 years, he must be getting fed up by now, dying every 4 weeks.

Sometimes they send an email saying it is from a children’s charity and put a picture of a child crying hugging a teddy bear, they ask you if you can spare a bit of money, all charities have a registration number, a registration charity number, if there isn’t one it will be fake, you can check charity numbers online to make sure it is genuine, or call the charity

So be very careful

[LittlePuffyTail]

I’ve been getting the “I just forwarded you “big amount of $”….. Um yeah……I’ll just delete that thanks.Weird that I got the same e-mail, the same exact amount of $ being “given” to me by like 3 different names. Wow, people sure love throwing money at me…..

[Sr. Melangell]

Well LPT, I’m surprised that I have this Uncle who was a Shaman, I’ll give it a few more days and he’ll have died again, wow loads of money coming my way not.

[Reesebun]

John Smith is actually The Doctor in disguise. Maybe he is giving you his T.A.R.D.I.S.!

[Ava]

There used to be a sneaky one, from years ago, don’t know if it’s still used, but it basically had names of people I was familiar with, who I knew were overseas and said they were in trouble and needed $$ to come back to the US. Only problem was I would be the last person (if it even crossed their mind) they would ask for money, and I knew how they were funded, so I knew it was a scam. It was a little worrying to get an email from someone I know asking for help, but after thinking about it more than ten seconds, I knew it was a scam. And a quick email directly to said person cleared it up even further.

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