A new scam?

[TheFishman1]

Yeah, I got the same exact one and I just delete them anytime. I see something like that. I just deleted. I don’t ever wanna open those up.

[RSD1]

11 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.

So it caught your attention because you need a good drilling?  

[topt]

7 hours ago, Lacessit said:

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.

Has nothing to do with the OS - purely down to your email provider and if your email has made its way on to various lists and your email settings possibly.

[Hawaiian]

11 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 these kinds of emails everyday in my SPAM file.  Just delete them.

[FriscoKid]

19 minutes ago, dingdongrb said:

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!

bro, as I already said, all this stuff gets spam filtered automatically. It rarely ever reaches my inbox.

[VBer]

Spam like this have gone after I have moved inbox to Apple, them doing good  filtering job. Sometimes I take a look to a junk folder, and it’s a hell out there.

[ravip]

The email said you won just a power tool?

I have received many emails saying I've won million dollars, and now I know not where to invest the next windfall!

[ignis]

I also receive dozens of similar emails each week, they go straight into my junk folder, if  they were true would be a multi milionare  + have every tool / holidays / house  ever made...

 

Latest is delivery COD 199 baht, never ordered anything for 199 baht so refuse package,  must have had 12 or so of these this month !! 

when I order anything I check the tatal price and have the money ready

 

The new law is good can open package before paying delivery driver

 

as for phone calls never pick up unless I know the number.

[Gottfrid]

Yeah, I am still confused about the guy who said his uncle had died in a foreign country, as he had to hide from people searching for him. He contacted me and said I can have 50% of 120 million dollar if he could get help to transfer them to my account. All had to be done in silence too, as being spotted could mean great danger.

 

Anyway, I told him to ask somebody else, as I don´t need the money and thought it would be selfish to steal the opportunity from somebody in need.

Edited August 24 by Gottfrid

[Iron Tongue]

8 hours ago, Lacessit said:

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.

Most phishing emails get caught and filtered, you're just seeing the ones that squeak through. 

Your OS doesn't matter because they're phishing email addresses.

Just look at the sender's email address, it won't be an official corporate address.

Besides, your first clue should be that since you didn't enter the contest, how could you have won?

 

 

Edited August 24 by Iron Tongue

[maesariang]

Scammers in Thai airports. They use the same story - atm ate card no backup card. No money for 48 hours can you help. Men and women doing it.

[AustinRacing]

2 hours 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.

The prince offered me an express transfer (ET), so I send him extra money yesterday. Mine should arrive tomorrow. Next time ask for the ET option. I hope it’s not the same 10m he offered us both. Don’t think a prince would scam one of us. Would he?

[Lacessit]

3 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

Most phishing emails get caught and filtered, you're just seeing the ones that squeak through. 

Your OS doesn't matter because they're phishing email addresses.

Just look at the sender's email address, it won't be an official corporate address.

Besides, your first clue should be that since you didn't enter the contest, how could you have won?

 

 

I did say I never entered the raffle in my OP.

 

I was just surprised because I empty my spam folder every 3-4 days, which has emails aplenty.

 

This is the first one to get into my Inbox. Which normally only gets emails from known sources.

[phetphet]

9 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

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

I used to get loads of junk mail in my Hotmail.

A few years ago, Microsoft seemed to up their game in intercepting and it dropped right off.  

Since that security breach at a large data brokers recently, the amount of junk mail I am getting has hugely increased. Maybe I was one of the unlucky ones whose data was stolen.  I hope not.

[Dazinoz]

7 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

I receive literally hundreds of these same type of phishing emails per day

Wow, where do you register your email? I am lucky to get around 1 spam a week.

[rudi49jr]

12 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 have received countless emails like this, that I had won a power drill or a tool kit or whatever and if I would just please click on the link to confirm. Yeah, right.

Fortunately I have a very good spam filter and all this goes straight into my spam folder.

Edited August 24 by rudi49jr

[scubascuba3]

32 minutes ago, phetphet said:

I used to get loads of junk mail in my Hotmail.

A few years ago, Microsoft seemed to up their game in intercepting and it dropped right off.  

Since that security breach at a large data brokers recently, the amount of junk mail I am getting has hugely increased. Maybe I was one of the unlucky ones whose data was stolen.  I hope not.

Microsoft are rubbish at filtering phishing junk, i agree a few years ago they were good

[renaissanc]

Scam. Send to spam. I get emails like this quite often. If you click on the link, who knows what software you'll receive.

[twizzian]

I still get the lonely Russian wench multiple times per week, it’s getting older than me.

Some are the same incl pic but different addresses with the odd click the attached dangerous link thingy

Edited August 24 by twizzian

[sandyf]

4 hours ago, brianthainess said:

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

Everyone that has an email address gets them, different email providers have their own way of managing email.

[xtrnuno41]

Nowadays get mail from packages to come to me and need something.

And it looks like, it gets worse when I did order something.

Winning? I just delete it instantly, fake.

Inheritance of 10 million$? Yha right, well didnt see that one for long time. 

[sandyf]

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

This is the first one to get into my Inbox. Which normally only gets emails from known sources.

Indeed, and both Microsoft and Google are fairly good at that.

From the other side of the fence. A couple of years ago I started a google group and had extreme difficulty getting people on board because of email filtering. The initial welcome message coming from an unkown source ended up in junk and very few check their junk, also many on a 30 day delete. After a while they would email me separately asking why they were not getting the messages.  I would explain about the Junk folder and send them a new welcome message.  Seemed like many had some kind of repeat button.

[FriscoKid]

2 hours ago, maesariang said:

Scammers in Thai airports. They use the same story - atm ate card no backup card. No money for 48 hours can you help. Men and women doing it.

What foolish distant planet are you on? This is about email scams. 

[Keeps]

This is a good website to see if your email address appears in a data breach. Strange name for the website but it is legit. My own email address has appeared in 7 data breaches over the last few years. Never suffered any financial loss - just was receiving a great deal of spam emails for a period after each breach.

 

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

[phetphet]

On a similar vein. I saw a guy on Youtube use a site called pentester.com

https://pentester.com

 

Basically, you enter an email address and it shows if it has been exposed through any of these database hacks, and what info is out there.

 

I tried it, and it showed mine had been exposed through three hacked sites. Had all my Thai info.: name, address, phone no. It also had my UK address and phone number, and showed which sites it had been hacked from and passwords from those sites..

Luckily I had changed all info. when I first read, or was warned about the hacks.

Scary stuff.

[Caldera]

18 hours ago, Lacessit said:

According to the email, I had won a cordless power tool kit from the Milwaukee Power Tool Company.

 

Congrats, Sir.

[sanabavy IV]

16 hours 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. 

 

I miss that time when we would receive beautiful letters from princesses, princes or bank directors from Nigeria....🙄 Now what? a cordless power tool kit, from obscure Milwaukee 😤

[stoner]

10 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

17 hours ago, RSD1 said:

No, it's legit!!!

It cannot be if he did not enter a raffle!

 

yesssss lou finally a funny comment. 

[stoner]

send me 1 btc and ill send back 10. 

[RSD1]

8 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Anyway, I told him to ask somebody else, as I don´t need the money and thought it would be selfish to steal the opportunity from somebody in need.

Presumably that resulted in more attempts where the guy persisted that you still take the money and give it to charity or to build an orphanage if you like?