Is this scam - spam???

SKYPE Communications
2 Waterhouse Sq (140 Holborn), London,
Greater London, EC1N 2ST,
United KingdomDear Skype User,Your Lucky number #3598# has won for you £259,000.00 GBP via the first quarter raffle draw on the on-going SKYPE AWARD PROMO.Please provide us with the following details listed below so that your fund will be remitted to you as soon as possible.0. Skype Username:___________________________
1. Full Name:___________________________
2. Address:___________________________
3. Country:___________________________
4. Phone Number:___________________________
5. Cell Phone Number:___________________________
6. Occupation:___________________________
7. Sex:___________________________
8. Age:___________________________
9. Alternative Email Id:___________________________
10. A scanned copy of any form of your valid identity document in your country, e.g. international passport photo page or driver’s license or any other valid document.
As soon as these details are received and verified, your fund will be transferred to you. Thank you for using SKYPE.
© 2015 Skype and/or Microsoft.
The Skype name, associated trade marks and logos and the "S" logo
are trade marks of Skype or related entities.
Use of this website constitutes acceptance of the Terms of Use and Privacy and Cookie policy.

What is your best guess? http://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/Skype-Lottery-Winner/m-p/3931156#M43382

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I just got an email from Apple, asking me to complete a survey. If I don't then I'll loose my Apple ID. I think this is spam/virus/hacker. Anybody have any info on this?

i just got an email from Apple, asking me to complete a survey. If I don't then I'll loose my Apple ID. I think this is spam/virus/hacker. Anybody have any info on this?

There have been a number of phishing scam emails going around for at least half a year...do not respond, click links, or do anything with that email. Apple does not operate that way.
See: http://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/phishing/

Is this scam??

gd am i just receive a letter came from skype is this scam?
SKYPE USER AWARD
SANDPIPER HOUSE 21-24
QUEEN ELIZABETH STREET, MIDDLE SEX, HA8 7EJ,
MANCHESTER ,ENGLAND.
MOBILE NO: (+44) 7561446539
FAX NO: (+44) 0843 524 0452.
DEAR WINNER
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
DO KEEP IT CONFIDENTIAL.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
We wish to congratulate you as one of the 5 lucky winning of Skype Award you have been approve for the star prize of £250,000.00
(Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds)
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000 companies and 50,000,000 individual Skype User I.D from all over the world. This lottery was promoted and =Sponsored by Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc, Shell Oil. Company With the support of European corporate companies and organizations to encourage the use of Internet and computers worldwide.
To process your winning prize you have to scan send your verification identity card
*INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT COPY
*YOUR DRIVING LICENSE COPY
*OR ANY FORM OF YOUR IDENTITY PROOF
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than TWO WEEKS, after this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your Batch Numbers in all correspondence.
Congratulations once more!! !!! !!!! !!!!!.
NOTE: THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE PAYING BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH, DEDUCT/CUT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Mark Williams
Claim Manager

Yes, it is a scam.
Best advice is never to click links within such emails as they may take you to a clone of the real site designed to steal your credentials.
tt2

Is this a spam email

I have received an email 'receipt nO. ...etc' for a purchase totalling $699.00 - how do I determine if this is spam or if someone has hacked my account.....?

Yes, it's a phish. It's been reported frequently over the last few days. Do not respond to it in any way; just delete it. For information on how to identify phish emails, see:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2075
Regards.

Has Anyone Tried This "Report Spam" Script?

I just happened to stumble upon this script and I'd like to try it, but I'd like to know if anyone here has had any experience with it before I run it.
Thanks for the feedback!
Link with Description:
http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/09/26/applescript-to-report-mac-spam/
Download site:
http://alignedleft.com/reportspam/

VitoArc,
Haven't used it but it is pretty straightforward.
It just automates the process of sending your spam mail to Apple and to the Feds. If you aren't a .Mac member using an @mac.com address, then you shouldn't be sending it to Apple.
The script sends mail from your Junk folder.
If you want to do this without a script, just select the mail in question and make sure that you have the "Long Headers" option selected so that the full headers are showing. Then just forward the mail to [email protected]

WATCH OUT FOR THIS SCAM FROM VERIZON

I recently used my $50 upgrade credit to purchase a new Samsung Convoy 2 on the verizonwireless website. Website price was $79.99 plus tax. After my credit, my price was $32.69 which I thought was good. Now comes the part where Verizon scams you.
They sent me a DEFECTIVE phone. Trouble with text messaging immediately. After talking to Customer Service, I was told he could not fix the problem but would send me a REPLACEMENT, along with a shipping label to return DEFECTIVE phone. I was told there would be a charge on my bill for the new phone, but a credit for the returned phone resulting in no charge. This was a LIE!!
On my bill was the original charge for $32.69 for the DEFECTIVE phone and a credit for $32.69 since I returned it. There was another charge for $141.69 for my REPLACEMENT phone. So, what I purchased online for $32.69 now cost me $141.69 with nothing new added.
When I complained to Jennifer, a supervisor with Customer Service, I was told since the second phone came from customer service, they couldn't match the website price. How can you not match your own listed price??? How can you justify charging someone 4 times what they originally paid to REPLACE the DEFECTIVE equipment you sold them in the first place?

acraftylady wrote:
I don't understand why they charged for a warranty replacement. My sons phone was defective in the first year and we took it into a verizon store and they had a used one sent right to the house and we were instructed how to send the old one back as soon as we go it and no money was involved. If they are exchanging a brand new defective phone for same model bought online why would they be charge for a replacement? Makes me really appreciate how compitent the store is I use, the customer service reps are friendly and know what they are doing. Mary
I agree. If you were receiving a warranty replacement, you should not have been credited for the return and then charged for a new phone. There should not be any charges at all involved.
This sounds as if it was treated as a return instead of a warranty replacement.

I have just received an email that informs me that my email address has won cash 850k euro. Is this a spam?

Dear Beneficiary,
This is to inform you that your E-mail Address has won €850, 000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO ONLY)
in the 2012 Mozilla Firefox Online promo, which was recently conducted. Click on the attach file to view details
of your winning details and also fill out the Application Form of Payment for immediate collections of your winning
fund.
Congratulations!
Mr. Bright Clinton
+44 (0)7045754780
Mozilla Firefox Online Promo

Well it seems like a spam because Mozilla don't have an online promo.. There is a good way to differentiate spam from other emails.. Check the headers and it will show you the real source of the email.. Which is normally another non-mozilla email :)
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This IS Spam!! A request to "validate" account via a nonApple website

Is This Spam or What? Email from "Apple" at [email protected] saying to validate my acct within 48 hrs. And the website is: http://mrbfinance.com/red/1.php

A trick you might want to try is to view the full header (or the "source") of the email, locate the IP address of the sender, and test it in WhoIs. I regularly get offers of mortgages, dietary supplements or romance which appear legitimate but the emails are coming from China or Romania or Ukraine. And how reliable can an extended car warranty be coming from Russia?

Are you aware of: The assault on our users continues. It might be worth the squeeze to alert your Firefox users to this scam. Brian Fake Anti-Virus Poses As Microsoft Update Jayesh Limaye, Jun 10, 2011 1656 hrs IST

It can be seen of late, that fake anti-virus attacks have become more professional, and can actually convince more innocent people than ever before, to fall into this trap. In this case, a huge amount of attention has been paid to copy the graphics and website elements of the original site to fool people into believing that the bogus site is in fact, the original. They have also taken advantage of the timing of the monthly update patch released by Microsoft, known as Patch Tuesday, to get more users into installing this malicious software.
Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos, said, "Users need to be more vigilant than ever before as bogus security alerts pop-up in their browsers. Fake anti-virus attacks are big business for cybercriminals and they are investing time and effort into making them as convincing as possible. Malicious hackers are using smart social engineering tricks more and more often, and the risk is that users will be scared by a phony warning into handing over money to fix problems that never existed in the first place".
The next time you see Microsoft update notification while using Firefox, steer clear of this wolf in sheep's clothing.

You are welcome. I'm glad you got it back up.
(1) You say you did the symbolic link. I will assume this is set correctly; it's very important that it is.
(2) I don't know what you mean by "Been feeding the [email protected] for several weeks now, 700 emails each day at least." After the initial training period, SpamAssassin doesn't learn from mail it has already processed correctly. At this point, you only need to teach SpamAssassin when it is wrong. [email protected] should only be getting spam that is being passed as clean. Likewise, [email protected] should only be getting legitimate mail that is being flagged as junk. You are redirecting mail to both [email protected] and [email protected] ... right? SpamAssassin needs both.
(3) Next, as I said before, you need to implement those "Frontline spam defense for Mac OS X Server." Once you have that done and issue "postfix reload" you can look at your SMTP log in Server Admin and watch as Postfix blocks one piece of junk mail after another. It's kind of cool.
(4) Add some SARE rules:
Visit http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm and download the following rules:
70sareadult.cf
70saregenlsubj0.cf
70sareheader0.cf
70sarehtml0.cf
70sareobfu0.cf
70sareoem.cf
70sarespoof.cf
70sarestocks.cf
70sareunsub.cf
72sare_redirectpost
Visit http://www.rulesemporium.com/other-rules.htm and download the following rules:
backhair.cf
bogus-virus-warnings.cf
chickenpox.cf
weeds.cf
Copy these rules to /etc/mail/spamassassin/
Then stop and restart mail services.
There are other things you can do, and you'll find differing opinions about such things. In general, I think implementing the "Frontline spam defense for Mac OS X Server" and adding the SARE rules will help a lot. Good luck!

I received a mail as given below. Is this a spam?

From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Microsoft account password reset
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 07:25:41 +0530
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Update
Thank
you for being one of our valued users of Windows Live Hotmail. We hope you are enjoying it and having fun using Windows
Live Hotmail & other Windows Live services. We are constantly working to improve the service to you.
Please be informed that due to the recent upgraded of the service, we would be closing both all
unused and anonymous registered accounts. You are receiving this email because your account is among those to be deleted, and your verification would be needed, to enabled you to continue the activities of your account. Verify it by clicking on the reply button
in order to reply back to this message and fill out the information required below:
* Username:...........................
* Password:............................
* Date of Birth:.......................
* Country Or Territory:...........
* Alternative e-mail: .............
* Password:.........................
This back up is necessary for update and to avoid blocking of your account. If you do not respond to this
message. you will lose your account permanently.
Thank you for your usual co-operation. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Please be aware that there is a risk involved whenever downloading email attachments to your computer or sending email attachments to others and that, as provided in the Terms of Service, neither Hotmail! are
responsible for any damages caused by your decision to do . Please reply to this message. This is a service email related to your use of Hotmail! Mail.
Microsoft respects your privacy. Please read our online Privacy Statement.
Thanks,
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Definitely yes. 1) Notifications from MS would never come from some random Hotmail address. 2) If they really did require you to provide information they would direct you to a page on their website, not ask you to reply to an email. 3) they would never
ask you to supply your current password since there's no circumstance where they would need it, and they definitely wouldn't ask for your alternate email's password. And finally 4) I doubt they'd send out an email like that which is so badly written, eg, it
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How do I report a Scam Spam about a big money Firefox give away?

Got this as an E-Mail the other day!
Maybe you guy should go after them!
Congratulations !! (You have won Mozilla Firefox Online promo ..
Mozilla Firefox Online promo [[email protected]]
Congratulations!!
Your email address has won you the sum of US$1,200.000.00 in the current Mozilla Firefox Online promo. To claim your prize. Contact our paying officer immediately for confirmation: Mr. Dean Johnson, Email; [email protected]
Once more Congratulations!!
Coordinator,
Mozilla Firefox Inc.

Try the 'report a problem' link from your purchase history : log into your account on your computer's iTunes via Store > View My Account (Store > View My Apple ID on iTunes 11) and you should then see a Purchase History section with a 'see all' link to the right of it ; click on that and you should see a list of your purchases ; find that app and use the 'Report a Problem' link and fill in details about the problem (iTunes support should reply within, I think, about 24 hours).
Some people have had a problem with the 'report a problem' link (it's been taking people to this site on a browser instead of showing a form in iTunes) - if it does that to you then try contacting iTunes support via this page : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/- click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page.

Why do we have all this Indian spam on this forum

Don't any moderators read this forum and clean it up?

Yes they do but the spammers are relentless. It was much worse before the new Forum format. What gets through is the tiny portion of what they recieve everyday. I'll put a report in to the hosts but I'm sure they know.

Would the mods have treated this as spam...

if it were not from Oracle?
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It does appear to be a technical violation of the noncommercial TOS, but it seems to me it shouldn't be (that is, the TOS is too restrictive, this ought to be a reasonable thing to post). But that's how the TOS is, a potential hammer, hopefully to be pounded with sparingly.

Scam Spam - download video player message

Occasionally I get a voice message from something like "m15133627527795".
It states:
"Automated notification. New video message received. To view video messages install video player at msgot.com".
That is a VERY RISKY LINK and I would NOT INSTALL the offered software when you go to that link. It is clearly not a Skype site (nor any other trustworthy site).
Unless someone corrects me, it appears to me like this will install something on your machine that you definitely don't want.
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Scary as those scams might be, you did all the right things...clearing out cache and history should remove all traces...another good thing is to power down completely then power back up so anything volatile disappears.

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