A new scam?

[Lacessit]

I received an email " Confirmation needed"

 

According to the email, I had won a cordless power tool kit from the Milwaukee Power Tool Company. In a raffle I had never entered.

 

No doubt, if I had clicked on the confirmation link, all kinds of nasty things would have happened to my laptop, and /or personal data.

 

Has anyone else seen this email?

 

 

[RSD1]

No, it's legit!!!

[SAFETY FIRST]

3 hours ago, Lacessit said:

According to the email, I had won a cordless power tool kit from the Milwaukee Power Tool Company. In a raffle I had never entered.

 

if I had clicked on the confirmation link

I receive dozens of similar emails each week, they go straight into my junk folder. 

 

Surely this can't be your first experience receiving these type of scam emails. 

 

Never click on a link from a sender you don't know. 

 

Edited August 23 by SAFETY FIRST

[scubascuba3]

i get loads of these emails every week in my hotmail junk, gmail has much better filtering and I don't see them

[jaywalker2]

That's nothing. I won $2 million in an email lottery! I just need to come up with the $20,000 deposit. Anyone want to help out?

[georgegeorgia]

1 hour ago, RSD1 said:

No, it's legit!!!

Just like you !

 

[Lacessit]

57 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I receive dozens of similar emails each week, they go straight into my junk folder. 

 

Surely this can't be your first experience receiving these type of scam emails. 

 

Never click on a link from a sender you don't know. 

 

It is the first time. I don't know if it's because I am using a Linux OS, or something to do with my filters.

[FriscoKid]

4 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I received an email " Confirmation needed"

 

According to the email, I had won a cordless power tool kit from the Milwaukee Power Tool Company. In a raffle I had never entered.

 

No doubt, if I had clicked on the confirmation link, all kinds of nasty things would have happened to my laptop, and /or personal data.

 

Has anyone else seen this email?

 

 

You gotta be kidding me. Nobody will recognize any specific spam email. I receive literally hundreds of these same type of phishing emails per day in the form of fake offers; anything from car insurance to credit cards, deals on retail stuff at hypermarts, and the list goes on. It's endless and I've been getting them since at least the year 2000.
 

But no matter what they say, they are all effectively the same simple thing: The offers are fake, the links contained in the emails are malicious, and they will lead you nowhere except to lots of site redirects and eventual possible identity theft.
 

They might even give you a link that leads to a Trojan or key logger getting installed on your computer. The links will also have you added to many more spam email address lists. So the more you click on the fake offers then the more garbage like it you will receive in the future. 
 

Good thing is that nearly all this stuff gets spam filtered automatically. They rarely ever reach my inbox.

[Peterphuket]

5 hours ago, jaywalker2 said:

That's nothing. I won $2 million in an email lottery! I just need to come up with the $20,000 deposit. Anyone want to help out?

Am convinced it was a company from nigeria with a prince as owner.

[jippytum]

You should watch the movie Nabrasca 2013

[maesariang]

9 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I received an email " Confirmation needed"

 

According to the email, I had won a cordless power tool kit from the Milwaukee Power Tool Company. In a raffle I had never entered.

 

No doubt, if I had clicked on the confirmation link, all kinds of nasty things would have happened to my laptop, and /or personal data.

 

Has anyone else seen this email?

 

 

I get 10 scam emails a week

[maesariang]

5 hours ago, jaywalker2 said:

That's nothing. I won $2 million in an email lottery! I just need to come up with the $20,000 deposit. Anyone want to help out?

I won $60m several times. They never paid.

[Will B Good]

5 hours ago, jaywalker2 said:

That's nothing. I won $2 million in an email lottery! I just need to come up with the $20,000 deposit. Anyone want to help out?

 

 

Chicken feed......I've got $10 million coming from a Nigerian Prince......any day now....just sent him my bank details.

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, RSD1 said:

No, it's legit!!!

It cannot be if he did not enter a raffle!

[newbee2022]

9 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I received an email " Confirmation needed"

 

According to the email, I had won a cordless power tool kit from the Milwaukee Power Tool Company. In a raffle I had never entered.

 

No doubt, if I had clicked on the confirmation link, all kinds of nasty things would have happened to my laptop, and /or personal data.

 

Has anyone else seen this email?

 

 

Order your next beer. Then you're the winner🤗

[brianthainess]

I use Yahoo and never get spam E-mails.....

[Lacessit]

25 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

Chicken feed......I've got $10 million coming from a Nigerian Prince......any day now....just sent him my bank details.

I want my share, I referred you.

[Will B Good]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I want my share, I referred you.

 

10%....honest.....I just need your bank details and password to transfer the funds.

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, Will B Good said:

 

10%....honest.....I just need your bank details and password to transfer the funds.

No no, cash only. We'll meet in a bar where I have bouncer friends. Come alone.

[Scouse123]

10 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I received an email " Confirmation needed"

 

According to the email, I had won a cordless power tool kit from the Milwaukee Power Tool Company. In a raffle I had never entered.

 

No doubt, if I had clicked on the confirmation link, all kinds of nasty things would have happened to my laptop, and /or personal data.

 

Has anyone else seen this email?

 

 

 

 

Everyone gets these emails,

 

It's the same as winning raffles that you haven't;'t entered or lucky draws at banks you have never heard of.

 

Only the one from the Nigerian prince is genuine, I'd respond to that one if he contacts you.

[Will B Good]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

No no, cash only. We'll meet in a bar where I have bouncer friends. Come alone.

 

 

On my way.....555

 

 

 

[wwest5829]

10 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I received an email " Confirmation needed"

 

According to the email, I had won a cordless power tool kit from the Milwaukee Power Tool Company. In a raffle I had never entered.

 

No doubt, if I had clicked on the confirmation link, all kinds of nasty things would have happened to my laptop, and /or personal data.

 

Has anyone else seen this email?

 

 

Yes … deleted. I get others, as well. Apple does a good job of sending to my junk folder.

[tandor]

8 hours ago, RSD1 said:

No, it's legit!!!

...Geez! Im in need of one of those too!

[cowellandrew]

Can you send me the link? 

I need a new tool!

😳😬🦌🐘🐒👮‍♂️😁

[RSD1]

1 hour ago, maesariang said:

I get 10 scam emails a week

That's not enough. You deserve more Susan. 

[RSD1]

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

Chicken feed......I've got $10 million coming from a Nigerian Prince......any day now....just sent him my bank details.

If you haven't sent him all the insurance and documentation processing fees in advance yet then you will never receive your "fund". 

[RSD1]

1 hour ago, maesariang said:

I won $60m several times. They never paid.

Susan, you just need to pay the fees for the fund release. Then the diplomatic agent will deliver your cash consignment to you within 12 hours. You are wasting time. Send the payment!

[Will B Good]

5 minutes ago, RSD1 said:

If you haven't sent him all the insurance and documentation processing fees in advance yet then you will never receive your "fund". 

 

 

B****r

[dingdongrb]

6 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

You gotta be kidding me. Nobody will recognize any specific spam email. I receive literally hundreds of these same type of phishing emails per day in the form of fake offers; anything from car insurance to credit cards, deals on retail stuff at hypermarts, and the list goes on. It's endless and I've been getting them since at least the year 2000.

Wow, if you get that many then you've got one chitty email service and/or don't know how to use:

 

- Filters

- VPNs

- Alternate email for those non-personal websites you sign up for 

 

......and for heaven sake stop surfing the porn sites and clicking on every link you see!

[RSD1]

1 minute ago, dingdongrb said:

and for heaven sake stop surfing the porn sites and clicking on every link you see!

why would anyone in their right mind possibly ever want to do that?