Another bank scam mail for Uk banks to deal with.
May 16, 2008 by moneypenny
Filed under Personal Finance
According to the twitter and newspeak I hear, spammers and scammers are getting evermore present even after the biggest spammer of all time was arrested. One has to use firefox to try and weed some of them out. If you belong to google groups, yahoo, facebook or where-ever, and lets face it, most of us do, you’ll get scam mail, lots of it.
So how do you protect yourself? Because people really do fall prey to these scams.
Number 1 rule
Banks do not contact you by e mail. If you bank on-line, you have a password to enter the system and that’s part of your security, and …read more
Fake moneybookers scam ?
May 10, 2008 by moneypenny
Filed under Personal Finance
You’ve got cash
Greetings from moneybookers.com! We would like to inform you that you have received a payment from merchatrade3@merctrade.com.
Payment details
Amount: USD 320.00
ID: 95229846
Subject: withdraw complete
Note: Click here to accept this payment
Your money is waiting for you in your Moneybookers account.Use this link to accept payment- www.moneybookers.com.We hope you enjoy your cash.
This is what arrived in my mail box today. I went on-line because I thought it was from someone who was paying me today, and logged on. No cash!
So sooner or later everyone gets scamed, as Google tells you! The site is identical. Moneybookers should have a secure lock image like yahoo does.
Anyone else here …read more





