Scam Or What?

[TWR]

We have received payment for £160. 00 For ???? thank you.

Morris Wimbush sale@lexiconlifeline, please download Receipt.

Have you had one?

[scorpiojo]

Scam?

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2174153-Email-scam-or-credit-card-been-cloned

[Prudie]

No but I've just had one from Harry Chowen for something I've bought (apparently) for £175.70. Deleted of course.

[scorpiojo]

I've had $4.1m waiting for me in Nigeria, £1.4m from a Euro Lottery I've won and various offers of finicil help from lottery winners though....

[TWR]

Must be his Brother Prudie?

[sunny-dave]

The one I saw was quite clever - good enough to get through spam filters and worry people.

Don't open the .arj attachment - I suspect something nasty may lurk in there.

[TWR]

Your very Lucky Scorp

[scorpiojo]

LOL

[gness]

Morning, darling.....I had one yesterday from Rene Tasker telling me to open an attachment to see the details of the £130.69 purchase on my credit card.

I took advice from my friendly techie ...and it wasn't opened....x

[TWR]

Hello My Apple, just checked in, I thought I would share my O.P. there are some Sods out there, as soon as I'd seen it & put it on here it went into the Fv Box " Rubbish" how are you & Mr G? X

[AB Editor]

Current set of spam scams coming out at the moment. Do not download anything.

[gness]

Hi, lovely........and my scam or whatever it was wasn't opened......nosey though I am...

I'm fine thanks....fit and happy.....MrG has been dead for six and a half years....but in spirit he's fine...and getting the same earache from me as he did when he was alive...
Well I have to blame someone.....☺

[TWR]

***, trust me, l always do it Gness xx

[gness]

Join the club, darling....♥

[TWR]

xx

[Peter Pedant]

scambo, rambo

definite scam - delete dont reply
presumably they want bank details to "repay" you

[Brinjal]

I have had one from lawyers representing a man whom I helped a year ago. The man has since passed on and I have been left an inheritance.

[Hypognosis]

There was a time when sending large files by email would inconvenience the sender just as much as the recipient, in that a large attachment would hog the telephone line (no signal splitters then!) for an unacceptable length of time.

In the broadband era attachments come down the line in a split second. Zero inconvenience to the receiver and you could write back to insist on an uncompressed version of the attachment (can't hide executable files in that form), with the reasonable excuse that your virus protection warned you not to open the .arj, .zip etc.

The only person who needs to compress their attachments is someone sending out -large- numbers of identical items. Therefore, what appears to be unique to you cannot be unique. If it's not unique, who gains: them or you?

[Hypognosis]

@Brinjal

In your case, if they've got the name of the person you helped right, then it might be genuine.

Try and get a postal address for the solicitors, then write to them and try to get them to state the same thing in writing.

In theory, all they should need is the name to make the cheque out to.

Note: cheque books are being withdrawn by banks but not yet. We will have to get used to dishing out our bank details, in future.

If in doubt, speak to your bank and ask what could happen to your account if somone possessed both your bank account details and a copy of your signature?

[Brinjal]

Hypo the fact that I don't remember helping anyone and that they asked for money to cover initial costs suggests scam.