Mobile scam

Mike D

Senior Member
Hi Tubs - I recently Rica'd a sim card to be used in an old phone, which I intended using as my fishing phone and within 1 day it had been blocked. When I called Vodacom, it was advised that someone had conducted a telephonic sim swap - easy as that and no further detail could be supplied. I e-mailed my complaint to the CEO of Vodacom, with the reply that this had been investigated and it was found that the agent had faultered and would be disciplined - no further reply and still the number lost to me.

RICA my ............!
 

Riaandl

Sealiner
If you want to talk about scams. I am currently being sued by the NYPD for a traffic ticket and court date I missed.
 

JFE

Senior Member
It's not only scams, it is this whole bullsh@t notion that you privacy is being protected. Today again I got 3 sms'e - 1 to improve my faith, 1 to win a bmw that make you coffee in the morning and what have you. they have this :if you don't want to receive these notice any more text STOP to 88772; or whatever. Anyone tried that? I did and got about 6 more within an hour.
It *#@%%* me of big time! Share your pain on this issue believe me.
 

Dorado75

Sealiner
I have recieved two similar emails from two different people in my address books, they go something like this................. recon peoples mail accounts are been hacked and these mails are sent to all their contacts!

Sorry to bother you about this
I am presently in Spain and am facing some difficulties here because i misplaced my wallet where my money and credit card were kept. Presently my passport and belongings have been seized by the hotel management pending when i settle my bills.

I need you to lend me 2,450 Euros to settle my hotel bills and get myself back home. I've been to the embassy and the Police but they haven't been helpful;

I will reimburse the money as soon as i return. Please let me know if you can be of help ASAP. I can only communicate by email. Please come to my rescue
 
honest if i ever met one of these fools id beat the crap out of them! its so annoying, i had some company bill me for music downloads that i didnt even know about, i called them an threatened to sue them and the billing stoped imediatly nogal joburg based. when ever i sign a contract for an account, like edgars etc i make sure theres a privacy clause you have no idea how much money they make selling on your details  
 
I treat these scam artists differently! I reply really concerned and interested. Then play along for 2 or 5 emails. Get their bank details. Then I send them some very disturbing pics.
 

Fluffy

Senior Member
Personally i dont know why am working.... I have won so many lottos, I have so many Girls that want to meet me. I can by kittens that looks like lions. Iphone4s for R500,00 each. Somewhere I have a life i never new about.especially all the hot-named fake women who borrowed money from me and want to pay it back, Also got the NYPD parking ticket...AND THE BEST ONE: someone has been hired to kill me and he has been observing me but found out i wasnt as bad as his employer said i was,and that if i paid him a certain amount of money he will leave his "mission" and not kill me.
 

Parasite

New member
Received this yesterday morning 01h13 - Congratulations! Your cell number has won R975,000,00 with a post FIFA 2010 lottery number 680537. To  claim contact Mr. Julian Irwin on Tel 0723250078.

I don't need the money. Anybody want it?
 

dswart

Sealiner
My question is: they are sending this emails / sms so somewhere there is actually some people who believe in this or fall for this. Now the actuall question how stupid must they be to fall for something like this?

 

Henning I do basically the same...
 

Fluffy

Senior Member
dswart wrote:
My question is: they are sending this emails / sms so somewhere there is actually some people who believe in this or fall for this. Now the actuall question how stupid must they be to fall for something like this?

 

Henning I do basically the same...
There are people falling for this every day!!!!
 

Fluffy

Senior Member
or the better local ones, Where the people are giving you 20-40% on fixed deposits after a year....

it is possible,but how do you sustain the cashflow.becuase to give that amounts and pay yourself a salary you must have huge amounts going round and round...
 

BigBen

Sealiner
Try this people.






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The man that sent this information is a computer tech.  He spends a lot of time clearing the junk off computers for people and listens to complaints about speed.  All forwards are not bad, just some.  Be sure you read the very last paragraph.[size= ][/size]

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[size=[font="Times New Roman"]By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with [/font]snopes.comand/or truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via email is just that:  true/false or fact/fiction.  Both are excellent sites.][/size]


 

Advice from [size=[url=http://snopes.com/]snopes.com[/url]   VERY IMPORTANT!!][/size]


 

[size=1) Any time you see an email that says "forward this on to '10' (or however many) of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll get bad luck" or "you'll get good luck" or "you'll see something funny on your screen after you send it" or whatever --- it almost always has an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to.  The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' email addresses to use in SPAM emails or sell to other Spammers.  Even when you get emails that demand you send the email [b]on if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus ---][/size][/b] that is email tracking, and they are playing on our conscience.  These people don't care how they get your email addresses - just as long as they get them.  Also, emails that talk about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease "how would you feel if that was your child" --- email tracking.  Ignore them and don't participate!


 

[size=2) Almost all emails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards.  All it was, and all any of this type of email is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers andSpammers -- to validate active email accounts for their own ][/size]profitable[size= purposes.][/size]


 

[size=You can do your Friends and Family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them.  You will be providing a service to your friends.  And you will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam emails in the future!][/size]


 [size=Do yourself a favor and [b]STOP][/size][/b] adding your name(s) to those types of listing regardless how inviting they might sound! Or make you feel guilty if you don't! It's all about getting email addresses and nothing more.


 

[size=You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT!][/size]


 

[size=Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus attached!  Plus, we are helping theSpammers get rich!  Let's not make it easy for them!][/size]


 

ALSO:  Email petitions are NOT acceptable to government or any other organization - e.g. Social security, etc.  To be acceptable, petitions must have a "signed signature" and full address of the person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and you are just helping the email trackers.


 

And another important point is to delete all previous names from your emails before forwarding!!! Send emails to your entire address list BCC then everyone after you doesn't get your friend's email address.[size=
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[size=[font="Times New Roman"]Tips for Handling Telemarketers
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Three Little Words That Work!!
 
(1)The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...' 

[size=[font="Times New Roman"]Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.[/font] 
 
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
 
][/size]These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting..
 
 
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?

This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. 
 
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales person to call back and get someone at home.
 
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialled the call, and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
 

(3) Junk Mail Help:
 


When you get ads enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these ads with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
 
[size=[font="Times New Roman"]When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.[/font] 
 
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?][/size] 
It costs them more than the regular postage, 'IF' and when they receive them back.
 
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.

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If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
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You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 60 cents.
 
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
 
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
 
If enough people follow these tips, it will work I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
 

Parasite

New member
Man you won't believe the amount of people that fall for these scams. A relative works for one of the cell service providers and has said that they get calls every day whereby people have complained of being caught one way or the other with some having purchased air time and sent it off to the number etc...
 
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