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.
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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.

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

Is my phone damaged by going to this scam site?

Hello. I recieved the infamous iPhone 5 testing scam message, and I accidentaly clicked on the link it told me to go to. I exited out of safari and cleared the history, then deleted the message. Does my iPhone have a virus now?

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.

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 downloaded what I think is a Trojan to my ipad2 from the ios email client. It was this scam: We attempted to deliver your item. and then you download a link. How can I check for it?

I got a package delivery notice from my email and stupidly clicked the link. It locked my screen for a minute and all seems to be fine, but I see it's a password trojan. How can I find and get rid of it if its there.

Due to the same security features that mean there's no malware capable of infecting an iPad that hasn't been jailbroken, there's also no real anti-virus software for the iPad. The security of iOS (specifically, the sandboxing feature) would not allow an anti-virus app to scan your iPad. There are a few anti-virus apps, but they can only scan things external to your iPad, such as your e-mail or Dropbox accounts.
So, in short, yes, you're just panicking.

I Yogi is a complete scam. I have had a problem with my mIPhone 4s and somehow diverted to IYogi who assured me that they could fix the problem if i paid £65.00 The problem was fixed and one month later I received a "No Service" message on my phone. I

I Yogi is a complete SCAM having already paid for 2 help calls £60 approx I once again had NO SERVICE on my IPhone 4s and was told by their operative that if I paid another £40 for one year cover this would include an upgrade to the IPhone mid August or September. I refused to agree to this and said I would report them to the National Press. Suddenly.... my service was restored. I now want my initial payment refunded and will stop at nothing to get this back.
What is happening here is this: Once you agree to pay for 2 help calls they then at some point disconnect your service and try to get money from you to reconnect. I will report this SCAM to the Media and hope that this SCAM CAN BE STOPPED.
I also blame Apple for allowing this to happen in the first place because when trying to access APPLE HELPLINE you are diverted to this I YOGI crowd of thieves and money grabbers who are operating under the mantle of Apple.
BEWARE.....ONCE YOU AGREE TO PAY YHEIR INITIAL FIRST 2 HELPS THEY THEN AT SOME POINT CAUSE YOU ANOTHER PROBLEM IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET MORE MONEY FROM YOU..... beware of this I YOGI THEY ARE SWINDLERS !!!!!

TheArtificialNerd wrote:
I can say 100% that the AppleCare phone number only redirects to other AppleCare groups.
ALL of them Apple corporate or Apple Authorized partners.

Just a heads up on verizon scam

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that there is yet another verizon scam going around. Just got a call from (800) 888 9617 saying I have won the verizon price or whatever said I won $123 off my bill, then to log into vzw123.com. This is not real, someone just trying to rip people off.

I just received the same type of phishing scam call. It was showing in the caller ID as 800-888-9620 and upon answer an automated recording indicated that Verizon was calling about a pending $123 refund check. They indicated that I needed to visit vzw123.com and enter my account information to claim the check. The recording played twice and the call disconnected. Seems like there are a few variations of this scam floating around using a variety of spoofed caller id numbers (CSID) and a variety of websites addresses.

"74 verizon" scam alert

Beware! I had a call to my cell phone saying that I had won $74.00 and I needed to go to "74verizon.com" to claim it. The web address exists, and it looks just like Verizon -- it even has all the links to other parts of Verizon's website -- but the login screen is on 74verizon.com which is NOT Verizon. It's a scam site phishing for your login credentials.
The phone number that called was 800-922-5534, if it helps.

I got the same call today - from the main Tech Support number programmed into my contacts: 800-922-0204. I thought it was hard to spoof a phone number, so I went to the site (37verizon.com). I saw all legitimate links to Verizon's website, which I thought may be easy to recreate. I almost put in my credentials, but then I wondered why Verizon wouldn't just put something like this on their "verizonwireless.com" site. That's when I thought I should check again. There doesn't seem to be many search results for this scam yet. Be careful! Don't submit your creds unless you're 110% sure it's legitimate!

Fake APPLE Account verification Phishing Scam Alert

Hi guys I haven't managed to find a link to inform APPLE directly of this scam, so here are the details..
I recieved this email to my registered Apple ID address....
The link below connects to http://www.mesinpertanian.com/apple.htm which is obviously a fake phishing page.
It goes without saying that this is a fake site that just wants your credit card and ID details.
Dear Customer,
It has come to our attention that your account Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update your Billing Information. Failure to update your records will result in account termination.
Click on the reference link below and enter your login information on the following page to confirm your Billing Information records...
Click on http://store.apple.com to confirm your Billing Information records.
Thanks,
Apple Customer Support
if anyone knows how to inform the chaps at APPLE so they can close it down. Please forward it.

Very interesting. The WHOIS for mesinpertanian.com is different from kingofcostumes.com, which is the domain that is being used in other scam emails that are being sent out using the very same stationery and message. The latter is in New York, while this one is in Indonesia. Here it is for anyone who is interested:
   Domain Name: MESINPERTANIAN.COM
   Registrar: ONLINENIC, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.onlinenic.com
   Referral URL: http://www.OnlineNIC.com
   Name Server: NS1.LINUXHOSTINGSINGAPORE.COM
   Name Server: NS1.TADULAKO.CO.ID
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Updated Date: 19-sep-2010
   Creation Date: 13-sep-2006
   Expiration Date: 13-sep-2012
Registrant:
     MesinPertanian.com [email protected] +62.811454678 +62.811454678
     >>HANNY<<
     Kuningan
     Jakarta,DKI Jakarta,ID 12940
Domain Name:mesinpertanian.com
Record last updated at 2010-09-19 23:13:49
Record created on 9/13/2006
Record expired on 09/13/2012
Domain servers in listed order:
     ns1.tadulako.co.id      ns1.linuxhostingsingapore.com
Administrator:
     http://www.tadulako.com/ [email protected] +62.811454678 +62.811454678
     Tadulako - USA/Indonesia Server - +62 - 811 45 HOST
     jl. anggrek x no. 16, kuningan
     jakarta,dki jakarta,ID 12940
Technical Contactor:
     http://www.tadulako.com/ [email protected] +62.811454678 +62.811454678
     Tadulako - USA/Indonesia Server - +62 - 811 45 HOST
     jl. anggrek x no. 16, kuningan
     jakarta,dki jakarta,ID 12940
Billing Contactor:
     http://www.tadulako.com/ [email protected] +62.811454678 +62.811454678
     Tadulako - USA/Indonesia Server - +62 - 811 45 HOST
     jl. anggrek x no. 16, kuningan
     jakarta,dki jakarta,ID 12940
Registration Service Provider:
    name: >>HANNY<<
    tel: +62.811454678
     fax: +62.811454678
     web:mail: a-b-u-s-e @ 3i3.net

MobileMagic/SocMan/ImpulsePay scam

Hi I was also scammed. I went into a website that I trusted on my mobile and accidentally press a button on a pop up and realised my mistake that I quickly got out of it but was too late. I had no intention of entering any contest and there was no notice of a competition and there was definitely no notification of payment required. The only notification I got was when there was a receipt on my mobile for £6. I frantically called the number (02035405938) all day Sunday and there was nobody there. I called again the next day and a belligerent East European who called herself Diana (talking about non existent customer service) answered the phone and told me there will be no refund. They obviously expected lots of unhappy people calling on the way their telephone system was set. (Press 1 if you are not happy, Press 2 if you accidentally press the number or words to the effect) Phoned EE customer service also the same response but better customer service but will try to block Impulse pay from charging in future. Sent an email to [email protected] and was told "We would suggest contacting PhonepayPlus if you're still disputing the charge." So I have contacted PhonePayPlus and Action for Fraud and gave them my details.

I was on googling on my mobile 13 May 15 when another screen appeared with a question & answer competition. There was no mention if any cost or prizes. Just 5 questions to answer mainly on geography. I answered these then noticed a tiny box on the screen had automatically been ticked saying I agree to be billed. I unticked this but it automatically became ticked again. I then got a receipt to say I had been billed £30 for answering 5 questions. I have reported to EE and had my phone blocked. Now I will report this scam to Ofcom and report to Police action fraud. This scam is provided by ImpulsePayand managed by ImpulsePay. Contact details:02035422815 or [email protected] phoned the number and spoked sounded like an east european woman who said there was nothing she could do.

African Scam Using Skype

Hi everyone,
This post is about my encounter of an African Scamer. That is what it is called. I am not implying in any way that the Scam themselves were African in nature, race, color, or any other profiling. I want to warn my fellow Skype users about the encounter. There was a group of 12 all Skype users asking to be added at the same time. Before I knew it they were all gone except for one woman. I did not give it a second thought at first. She claimed she was taking classes in Ghana. It was a younger woman (29 she said) with a skype name of "vide.vide. The subject got around about her not having a passport to come to the States. That was when she started very suttel asking if I could help her out with the cost. I knew before this it was a scam, but don't be fooled by her. I said yes and ask how much and where it was to go. She told me she needed $500.00 and gave me a typical address in Ghana and the money was to be wired through Western Union.
One of the main reason I am reporting this on Skype is that I could not find any other documented cases of the African Scam. So there you have it. I will be reporting this first thing in the morning to the FBI or IRS. As of right now she believes I will be sending $500.00 via Western Union tomorrow morning to Ghana.

dirigir wrote:
Hi everyone,
This post is about my encounter of an African Scamer. That is what it is called. I am not implying in any way that the Scam themselves were African in nature, race, color, or any other profiling. I want to warn my fellow Skype users about the encounter. There was a group of 12 all Skype users asking to be added at the same time. Before I knew it they were all gone except for one woman. I did not give it a second thought at first. She claimed she was taking classes in Ghana. It was a younger woman (29 she said) with a skype name of "vide.vide. The subject got around about her not having a passport to come to the States. That was when she started very suttel asking if I could help her out with the cost. I knew before this it was a scam, but don't be fooled by her. I said yes and ask how much and where it was to go. She told me she needed $500.00 and gave me a typical address in Ghana and the money was to be wired through Western Union.
One of the main reason I am reporting this on Skype is that I could not find any other documented cases of the African Scam. So there you have it. I will be reporting this first thing in the morning to the FBI or IRS. As of right now she believes I will be sending $500.00 via Western Union tomorrow morning to Ghana.
you can also forward the details of this scam to [email protected] If I remember it correctly, there might already dozens of similar cases reported in this forum recently.
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Should I be worried about a scam UK Gov website taking over an open tab on Chrome?

Hey all, just experienced this scam take over a browser window on my Google Chrome.
I can't remember if I closed the window manually or using command + w and I was wondering if it makes a difference.
A little pop-up came up after, and I clicked the "Leave this page" button. Cleared all history on both Chrome and Safari and disabled Java on Safari.
My browser wasn't actually blocked and nothing was in my Downloads folder.
Just making sure that it won't come back to bite me in the butt.
Don't usually follow through so thoroughly, but I have my final graduate school paper due in 48 hours so I'm just making sure my macbook isn't going to spontaneously combust on me!

UPDATE:
(I dont have the snow leopard disks, a certified tech and good friend set me up with some legit bootable USB drives and DVDs of mountain lion)
The CD/DVD install was a no go. After 3 hours I gave up watching the white screen and turned the computer off to continue investigating.
I figured the CD was too old or something, who knows.
I attempted to create my own USB bootable drive by pulling the contents off the CD because I cannot download large files. (It would take a whole day)
It was a sketchy process and I know I couldnt set up the USB into a pristine bootable drive so I kept having to test things, constantly forcing the computer to shut down and turn on to no avail.
At one point I got a fire wire cable and got it to show up on my wifes computer in target disk mode, but when I went to erase the partitioned drive, a error appeared saying it couldn't unmount, and since then, target disk mode will not show up on my wife's computer. I figured that constantly shutting it down caused more problems...
Finally, I found a new 8GB USB stick that a technician from apple helped to create a bootable Mavericks drive on, and for the first time the computer booted to the installation screen and began installing, However, after 10mins, it stoped and said the hard drive is damaged and needed to be restored.
I am doing one last Option Zero erase on the main drive, then I will partition a proper MacintoshHD in the correct format in hopes that this will clear all the crap that could have accumulated during testing. I will attempt to do a clean install of mavericks.
If I succeed I will run a Disc Verify and Repair, and a Disk Worrier report to make sure.
If this fails, I have a 1.5T External Hard Drive, (Seagate Free Agent GoFlex)
I can unload its data onto my other 2T external hard drive,
Format the Goflex to a suitable mac hard drive then take it apart and put it in my computer.
Since I cannot order a hard drive, does that seem like a good idea? or a really bad idea? lol

Telstra's Third Party Purchases SCAM

On my 03Dec-02Jan bill, I have been charged $65.25 for "Third party purchases"from "Openmarket Pty. Ltd." These charges were for me receiving 14 text messages from a company I did not know or request any service from. I have complained at my local Telstra shop and been told that the charges were linked to my "Premium SMS" service - a service I never requested from Telstra. I was also told that Telstra was simply forwarding these charges to me - and the shop manager had no reply when I pointed at the bill's letterhead and said that no one else was charging me money for unsolicited services. I have reported this scam to the Telecommunications Ombudsman (TIO) and also to my MP Lucy Wicks. I am appalled that Australia's national telecom provider should be an accomplice to this disgusting attempt to rippoff customers. Please report here if you have also been subject to this scam.

Hi Alantun0I have just received my Telsytra Bill and there is a third party charge from Openmarket Pty Ltd for 16 Messages at a cost of $75.25. From the conversation with Telstra I beleive they are aware of this Company and the Scam it is operating but this was not directly admitted. However given the information I have found on the web they are aware of this scam. Tesltra's line of reply was that it must all be my fault. However I did not ask for these messages to be sent to me and I did not subscribe to them as was indirectly suggested. Telstra said they were only passing on the charge they had received from Openmarket Pty Ltd. I pointed out that if that was the case and it was nothing to do with Telstra and they were only passing on the charge there was no reason why they they could not remove the charge from may bill and ask Openmarket Pty Ltd to bill me direct. As you expected this logic received no reply from Telstra. Telstra are to call me tomorrow after aparently talking to Openmarket Pty Ltd. This is clearly a Scam that Telstra will have been aware of for some time and it would seem that they could have done something about by now. If no joy then I expect the next stage will be formal complains to Telstra, Openmarket Pty Ltd and the Ombudsman. If still not joy then we can only vote with our feet. Regards Chrispip.

Trade In Program is a Scam - DO NOT USE

I sent in my iPhone 4s 64G, which was in perfect condition (no scratches, dings, cracks, perfect working order, etc.), and I even hand polished my fingerprints off of it prior to putting it into the envelope to send it to Verizon.
I sent in my phone to Verizon October 4, 2013 and have not received my "gift card" to date, so I decided to check the status today December 7, 2013. The current status shows that my phone appraised at $220 was adjusted to $151.01. The Adjustment Reason field is BLANK. Therefore, Verizon dropped $70 off my appraisal for no reason. I feel like Verizon pulled a fast one on me and I feel like a fool for being tricked by this scam. I could have gotten more than $150 if I'd sold it online and I would have received cash and not a gift card.
Verizon has some serious explaining to do if they intend to keep my business going forward. I currently spend almost $400/month on Verizon Services. What bean counter decided that saving $70 was worth losing $400/month in business???

Well it looks like Verizon heard me and I received a gift card for $220.01 the other day. Now I find out I can't apply it to my bill since I have a Onebill account. So frustrating. I tried calling Verizon to see if there is a work around, but they keep dropping my call. Anyone else had any luck using the gift card to pay their Onebill accounts?

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