Scammers are back.

I just remembered the video about the scammer accidentally calling a group of people he scammed including police (The cop was trying to call the scammer's number and suddenly heard people cursing and the officer realized he's in a group call when the victims told him)

shadow2201 said:

Just got an email from them, reads like so:

Windows Support Center
(855) 255-4441
........................

How did they get your email address?

mjf said:

shadow2201 said:

Just got an email from them, reads like so:

Windows Support Center
(855) 255-4441
........................

How did they get your email address?

The misbegotten lowlife probably bought it as part of a spam email list. People's emails are constantly being harvested by hackers and sold in lists to the nefarious.

shadow2201 said:

Location: Lagos, Uganda.
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Some elementary geography helps too....everyone knows that Lagos is in Nigeria, and not Uganda.

Golden said:

shadow2201 said:

Location: Lagos, Uganda.
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Some elementary geography helps too....everyone knows that Lagos is in Nigeria, and not Uganda.

Good catch.

And sometime the scams just get too funny:

Have you heard the tale about the Nigerian astronaut apparently stranded in space for the last 14 years?

A truly cosmic 419 email scam concerning the ill-fortune of a Major Abacha Tunde has been doing the rounds on social media.

The email claims the astronaut has been trapped on the long-deorbited Soviet Salyut 6 space station since 1989 but now wants to come home and just needs some bank details and $3 million to get back to Earth.

It adds: “In the 14 years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $15 million. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association.
“If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $3 million. In order to access this trust fund we need your assistance.

Astronaut stranded in space email scam sweeps the internet - Telegraph

Borg 386 said:

And sometime the scams just get too funny:

Have you heard the tale about the Nigerian astronaut apparently stranded in space for the last 14 years?

A truly cosmic 419 email scam concerning the ill-fortune of a Major Abacha Tunde has been doing the rounds on social media.

The email claims the astronaut has been trapped on the long-deorbited Soviet Salyut 6 space station since 1989 but now wants to come home and just needs some bank details and $3 million to get back to Earth.

It adds: “In the 14 years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $15 million. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association.
“If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $3 million. In order to access this trust fund we need your assistance.

Astronaut stranded in space email scam sweeps the internet - Telegraph

What's "funny" is people will fall for it.

Hell I know people that think Africa is a country. Lago's is a toy. Learning is a disease one should stay away from.
Their is no help for some.

Layback Bear said:

Hell I know people that think Africa is a country. Lago's is a toy. Learning is a disease one should stay away from.
Their is no help for some.

"There" :)