# Stupid email scam attempt (mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 10, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-email-scam-attempt-mild/223838 "2004-01-10T16:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-email-scam-attempt-mild/223838/21 "2004-01-11T16:45:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*Harrumph, I’m miffed that scumbag scammers don’t think I’m worth their time to send me a fraudulent e-mai.l \*\* Tell ya what…next one I get, I’ll forward it to you, so you don’t feel left out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-email-scam-attempt-mild/223838/22 "2004-01-11T17:05:53Z")
Some lowlife signed up one of my emails to a kiddie porn ring!:eek: I get the ickiest, nastiest email on that address. On the other hand, all the viagra and penis enlargement ads in the other mailbox are wearing a bit thin… I don’t even have a penis to enlarge! ---
**Author:** ![Chata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Chata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chata)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-email-scam-attempt-mild/223838/23 "2004-01-11T17:21:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by drewbert \* > \*\*I got that Earthlink scam yesterday too. The site it sends you to doesn’t have a domain name, just an IP address. It appears to be hosted in South Korea. \*\* I get these all the time & forward them to abuse. My mom got one from her earthlink account to and was genuinely worried that her account was broken into and that she had to resubmit all her account and password info. Luckily she spoke to me first. These scams work I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-email-scam-attempt-mild/223838/24 "2004-01-12T02:44:14Z")
I just got one of these too - apparently my account has been frozen due to teararizm or something. And I don’t have a citibank account. Citibank certainly seem to know about this, just go [here](http://citibank.com/domain/contact/?BVE=http://web.da-us.citibank.com&BVP=/cgi-bin/citifi/scripts/&M=S&US&_u=visitor)\* and click on the link to see the dozens of scams that they’ve had. - or just go to [www.citibank.com](http://www.citibank.com) and work it out yourself ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-email-scam-attempt-mild/223838/25 "2004-01-12T03:03:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > \*\*I’ve been getting a lot of eBay and PayPal scam letters, all of them wanting me to click on a link and re-enter my information…ummmmmm, no, I don’t THINK so. \*\* **Lynn** , I’ve gotten the eBay and Paypal email scams, too. I checked their sites, and both have email addies to report what they call “spoof” emails. I reported mine and received a nice (if generic) thank you. To report, simply forward the entire email with no header or text changes to : [spoof@ebay.com](mailto:spoof@ebay.com) or [spoof@paypal.com](mailto:spoof@paypal.com) Hopefully these morons will get caught, and perhaps the legit companies can arrange to have the spammers’ desktops meet their colons. Up close and personal. FB ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-email-scam-attempt-mild/223838/26 "2004-01-12T03:36:46Z")
I’ve gotten quite a few of these, especially the Ebay & PayPal ones. And many of them are fairly well done, and could sucker in someone new who was a bit credulous. But what bugs me is that the real companies concerned don’t seem to have anything on their website that specifically says _this is not from us; it’s a fraud trying to get financial info from you!_ You’d think if these legitimate companies were really concerned about this, they would have a statement on their webpage about it. Something easily found by a possible victim of the scam. For example, entering the title or a couple keywords from the spam email should bring up an Ebay page exposing this fraud. But they don’t (or didn’t the last time I looked). Search them all you want, and it’s pretty hard to find a clear & specific page exposing this scam. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-email-scam-attempt-mild/223838.md?page=1)