Do not get caught - or threatened into this one

Exactly lemsip, but warn other people who may have reason to be frightened by it, that it is a scam.

just send it to spam box or just delete it.

We received the same scam email this week, MOnica. We forwarded it to [email protected] and then deleted it.

DH was asked to pay $641 to keep his 'dark deeds' secret.

MOnica
I listened to that program. To be honest you’ve got to be pretty dim or greedy to think that there’s a legit investment company where £100 accumulated to £400 in a week.
The scammers convinced them to borrow £50,000 to invest 🤦🏼‍♀️

Gundy people whose names are not familiar to me get in contact regulalry because of some of the outside activities I am involved in. However I do not open any posts, until I have read them in the preview panel and can see their content. I can then delete any scam posts, and follow up those associated with my activities.

I have been online and using email for over 25 years. I have yet to fall for a scam. I am not saying it will never happen, but it is unlikely.

I can only dream of my life being that exciting! If I got that message, I'd say bring it on mate, at least it would look like I was having some fun!

I got this today. Reported as phishing scam.

I don’t know why people keep opening emails, texts from sources/senders they don’t recognize.

Opening these messages only opens more avenues for the scammers to get bolder and make more inroads. And pretty soon you are hacked‼️

When I see unfamiliar senders, callers… w/o opening or answering the phone… I delete, delete, delete.

I was hacked twice and had bank fraud (which thankfully my bank covered and changed my acct number) so this was a learned lesson long ago.

There are kid scammers doing this for a kick and joyride, and sophisticated overseas scamming operatives - you can’t let your guard down. Ever!

Maybe with enough of these exposés from GN, others will learn to be more careful. It’s only getting worse in this techno world.

I once received an email from someone with a Russian sounding name.
He informed that one of my competitors in business was jealous of me and had hired him to " take me out " .However, this person said he was fed up doing others dirty work so he was going to deal with me for himself.
If I didn't pay an extortionate amount in Bitcoin, he was coming to chop both my hands off !!!
If I reported this then my family would forever be looking over their shoulders!!!
Of course, I immediately reported this to the relevant authorities.
A very nice chap was very sympathetic and confirmed it was a particularly nasty scam ( quelle surpris!)
He was very concerned about me being upset.
On the contrary, I was laughing my socks off.
I don't have any business, I don't have any money and , even if I had the foggiest what Bitcoin was I am such a technophobe that I would never be able to pay him. He'd more chance of me using a plane to parachute the ransom money into France !!!

I got one of those emails saying I'd been up to all sorts and the sender had it all on film! Nasty threats unless I paid money. It was hilarious! I might eat some cake in front of my computer occasionally when working but that's it.

The really funny thing is that I keep the camera lens covered unless I've got a Teams or Facetime call. Delete any message like that and forget it! It's pathetic and evil.

I got it too (I get weird stuff all the time) and as I do for the rest, I posted it on my Facebook wall, and we had a good laugh about it. Just for the record, I also receive letters from Banks I didn't even know existed, telling me that someone tried to hack my account, and that I ought to verify my account number... etc etc etc.

Yes, today's You and Yours, was quite frightening. Mainly because many of the cases were not people being 'under a spell', but careful savvy people who knew the ropes and had made all the necessary checks, but were misled by, among other things, cloned websites for reputable banks.

However I listened to the prgramme yesterday and felt that the people there, intelligent but financially not knowledgeable people, did, at times, act very foolishly. I think they responded to a cold call, they did no searching to find out about the company, or even ask friends and relations about it and finally, encouraged to invest £100, when it grew to £400 in a week they saw this as encouragment to invest more. Surely most people would immediately be suspicious about such fast growth in such a short time and smell a rat, whether they were financiallknowledgeable or not.

They also ask you to send Amazon/games vouchers etc.

I’ve had it too.

I've also received emails like this, once maybe twice. The first one gave me a moment of disquiet but soon realized it was a scam and deleted it.

you n yours, bbc radio 4, today 24/10/23, was about people getting caught by scams.
and tomorrow they are broadcasting real calls to nationwide building society where customers tell lies to make transactions, as they are so under the spell of the scammer.
worth listening to. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001rqn7

Coincidentally, on BBC three counties radio (the JVS show) this morning, they were discussing this scam, plus various others on the show.

The VERY important thing here is to never respond in any way. At work, I received several emails from HMRC telling me that the business was owed a large amount in overpaid tax, and to click on this link etc. It was nonsense of course, and after the third such email I wanted to respond with a suitably tart message, but luckily the IT technician was in the room and told me to never do this. These nasty emails are flooded onto the net and if you open them the senders know they are on to a valid address, and any response you make can leave you open to further hacking. Delete at once was his advice.

bed not bad!

Deedaa

The police once seized DH's computer and accused him of downloading child pornography. I told the DS who took it away that the only things he would find on it would be pictures of Italy and Cats. When he brought it back 3 months later (apparently we weren't an important case) he said "You were right, Italy and cats"

How are people supposed to continue with their lives for 3 months without their computer? I hope you got compensation!
I'd probably have had to buy a replacement.
My laptop froze the other day and the screen went black. I'd paused something I was watching to go to deal with my dinner and when I returned it wouldn't reopen. I got severely stressed about all the things I needed to do online. I spent the evening setting up online banking on my smartphone to check I had enough in my account to pay the mortgage next day - fortunately just enough without transferring from savings - then continued to stress about some online training I need to do for a job coming up. I can do most things on my phone but they usually take longer and some things I can't manage at all. As I was about to go to bad I tried it again and it fired up immediately! No idea what caused it but no problems since. Phew!
I'm horrified they could keep it for so long!

There's a good feature on radio 4 on scams at the moment

As several have said, this type of email is UTTER DRIVEL. I've had the same thing, and have NO Camera!

Please forward any such twaddle to [email protected] and then delete it. Similar stuff re Virgin Media, assorted banks, or various courier firms etc, can also usually also be forwarded to the scam depts of those orgs (email IDs easily found by Mr Google).

Years ago my virus checker failed and a virus gremlin that had been secreted on a website got across into my PC, and demanded a ransom to unlock my files. I used a different PC to find the antidote, and fooled the scammer software to unlock the PC again. I also learned (you can get specialist help if needed) how to find where that gremlin has been plonked, usually in a part of the PC that typically is hidden from you, but you can gain access if you know how.

You can do security sweeps of your PC as a regular thing, and virus checkers are good (if kept up to date!) and plenty free ones around, but these days I gather that most I'net service providers are much better at stopping these threats before they'd even get to you?

Yes - I've had this one a number of times too from various email addresses - knew straight away that it was a scam. Some nasty people out there!

Had a few of these over the years. They are horrible and disturbing.

I've had the first part of that scam message but didn't get the naughties part - wish I had as then would have been certain it was a scam. At the same time my screen was frozen and cursor would not move. I was really frightened, phoned my son in tears and he was able to help me sort it out over the phone. These people cause so much distress.