Fly Instructor Scam, just received it today on my work computer. I am not nor ever have been a bonifide fly fishing instructor. I will help my friends, but thats as good as I get. Can you believe the following?
Hello,
I am Mrs.smith scotland.
I was ask to contact you on fly fishing leason
Well my son steve is coming to stay with his freind for some couple of weeks in the U.S.A and he loves fish. i want you to help me teaching him fly fishing lesson. However you are based on recomendation from a google directories,So Note:my son steve is just a beginner. so plaese kindly teach him well. So kindly let me know your charges cost per week’s ,inother for me to arrange for his payment before he travells down to your side. i have even made preparation for his personal equipment he will be using priavtly durning his stay and bring back to sccotland when he is going.
Please Advise back on
How many week will he use…
weekly charge’s will and payment method ( Let me know if you will accept usa bank cheque ,credit card or! Money order) All
I look up to your reply regarding that.Bes t regards
Mrs.Smith
You may call me on +44 7031820522 0r 07031 820522
This is exactly as I copied and pasted to a word document befor dumping it in the trash.
If you think I’m gonna call this nut…nice grammar for a prim Scottish lady…be on the look out and delete.
I found the same message on my E-mail over the weekend, so this is obviously spam. Like you, I was really impressed with the Scottish “lady’s” grammar. I also deleted the letter.
And, gentlemen, don’t even TRY to call that type of number even to cuss the pervert(s) out. Sometimes they are like our 900 numbers and there are horrific charges attached to each call. Sometimes these scams are geared to JUST THAT, you calling just to tell em off and when a $200 dollar charge appears on your phone bill, YOU’VE BEEN HAD.
Remember the sage statement, "there’s one born…
Don’t mess with these jerks.
Fill out your E-Mail Address Book with the people you want to communicate with. All others should be deleted.
Any unauthorized popups come on your screen and you should delete them. If the bad popup won’t go away, then restart your computer, to get rid of it.
Don’t go looking for TROUBLE! There was a time I didn’t know the danger and I went looking for comp. wallpaper, screensavers and programs to help my computer run better. DON’T DO IT!!!
WEBSHOTS is the ONLY screensaver I use.
Firewall, Spyware and AntiVirus programs should only be downloaded with the approval of your comp. professional repairman.
Check to see if you have to RUN your maintenance programs manually or automatically.
Your computer is sort of like your car, you take care of it and it will respond to your care.
Doug P.S. There are plenty of sites that want to make your wallet lighter.
Geez,
I wonder why the Scottish lady with bad spelling didn’t want ME to give her son a lesson. I didn’t get the email. I don’t know whether to be hurt or offended. The next time anyone hears from this “Mrs. Smith” (real original I might add), I want you to let her know that I am awfully upset with her.
The thing that amazes me is that ANYONE who is able to read would even respond to that & other scams. They are SOOO obvious! Who was it that said…“There’s a sucker born every minute”?
We digress… but why don’t you use one of your own pictures for a screensaver?..in so doing I see something that gives me fond memories every time my desktop comes up…
Ducksterman,
Using your own pictures is fine. My point was to not download from sites that are not safe.
Also, there are sites that promise to sell you a program to fix your computer. Research will identify what the best programs are for maintenance.
I’m sorry if I didn’t explain myself. I will try to do a better job of communicating.
Doug :oops:
There is a growing community of people out there that love to mess with these kind of scammers as a hobby. They stay completely annonymous, and are very good at driving them crazy (no they aren’t doing anything illegal or harmful-just stringing them along and wasting their time). They figure the more time they waste of these bozos, the less they can prey on real victims. If one of you can still access the e-mail you’re talking about, PM me. I’d like you to forward it to me and I’ll get it to the right group of guys.
That “group” is sometimes one, two or maybe three folks if it’s a large business. And they have other jobs besides blocking servers with addresses which is what they do most of the time…which works until the address changes. If the spammer is good, masking their address (or spoofing) is the first thing they do.
Dose of reality: unless the spammer is from the U.S., this ‘spam control group’ cannot ‘shut down’ these outfits. U.S. internet laws do not apply in North Korea or China. Best use is the delete key without even opening.