[Athos]

I got this in my email but not from the Uber People site. The gmail look was identical to a legitimate one but the view conversation link was dead. I modified the responding address so it won't work. Anyone else getting spammed?

Hey Athos

I am young beautiful lady and I want to find the best man in the world to become married with me.
Don't warry, I don't say that you are this man

I just want to learn upward about sex, so when I'll find my future husband, I'll be experienced enough to impress him.

Do you want to be my sexual instructor?

 

[Dewey500]

I just got it to

 

[Han C]

Dude, you didn't take the opportunity?

 

[CDNcrippler1]

Dude, you didn't take the opportunity?

He isn't a certified sexual instructor

 

[bandit13]

I got this in my email but not from the Uber People site. The gmail look was identical to a legitimate one but the view conversation link was dead. I modified the responding address so it won't work. Anyone else getting spammed?

Hey Athos

I am young beautiful lady and I want to find the best man in the world to become married with me.
Don't warry, I don't say that you are this man

I just want to learn upward about sex, so when I'll find my future husband, I'll be experienced enough to impress him.

Do you want to be my sexual instructor?

Did you get a photo ?

I got the Same email too ?

Who's behind this ?

 

[Athos]

I think we all got the same photo. Probably it is somebody's daughter's picture ripped from facebook.

 

[dmoney155]

LOL, didnt get any such mail, but wow lol... these spammer think really low of people they sending it to.

 

[CDNcrippler1]

LOL, didnt get any such mail, but wow lol... these spammer think really low of people they sending it to.

Guess she feels that you can't teach her things

 

[Ben Wood]

Isn't it obvious who the likely culprit is? Who uses a random chick's picture to troll people around here...

Not a long list.

 

[Athos]

Isn't it obvious who the likely culprit is? Who uses a random chick's picture to troll people around here...

Not a long list.

Who do you think? I first thought was that it was Russian gangsters using creepy geeks working out of a non-descript building in St. Petersburg. Maybe if you click on the link they take you to a poisoned website where they push ransomware onto your computer.

 

[CDNcrippler1]

Isn't it obvious who the likely culprit is? Who uses a random chick's picture to troll people around here...

Not a long list.

Or it could also be a whooooole lot of people in here. Look at the couch and the picture in the background

 

[Athos]

Or it could also be a whooooole lot of people in here. Look at the couch and the picture in the background

I don't see how a member could troll easily. The spam came through email so Uberpeople would have had to be hacked to get the email addresses. Note that it didn't show up as an Alert on the site.

I don't think the picture tells us much. I'll bet it was ripped from facebook.

 

[i_k]

There’s way to many scams these days. About an hour ago I received a phone call from British Columbia. I let it go to voicemail. It was an automated message saying my name is part of a criminal investigation and if I don’t call the number provided I’ll be arrested.

It was obviously a scam so I ignored it, but after googling it apparently they get people to send payments in order to end the investigation.

I wonder how much money all these spammers and scammers actually make. It must be lucrative if more and more people keep coming out with them. Better than Uber, probably..

 

[Kurt Halfyard]

The LAND LINE phone seems to be at the heart of 'scam-central' - maybe targeting senior citizens who still have a land-line. My wife has a line for conference calls at work (more stable than her cellular for 4 hour meetings), but we never actually 'answer it' when it rings, it's always duct cleaning, Tax-Audit phonies, or other spam. Drives me nuts, and fills our built into the phone answering machine. Delete. Delete. Delete.

And all this after I subscribed to Canada's 'anti-spammer list!'
Argh.

 

[Athos]

I feel it is my civic duty to waste their time. Maybe I will save a senior a pile of grief. It's like giving blood. You don't know who you are helping but it is somebody.

I had a good one last year. I used to do Internet support so I know what drives them nuts. (right click or left click? click now? screen reading and more). I had him strung out for about an hour before we finally got to putting in his web address that would have taken me to a poisoned site. "Page cannot be displayed" I said. After another go at wasting his time (I can't find the h key) I told him that I would probably have to hang up if I was to go to that site because I was dial-up! It actually went on a bit after that (with return calls) if you can believe it but he finally gave up. It was memorable and it felt good. I gave him all the signs that I was a computer illiterate senior with money and that I was happy to pay to get the virus off my computer. I think that helped keep it going.

Good fun doing a good deed!

 

[Actionjax]

There's way to many scams these days. About an hour ago I received a phone call from British Columbia. I let it go to voicemail. It was an automated message saying my name is part of a criminal investigation and if I don't call the number provided I'll be arrested.

It was obviously a scam so I ignored it, but after googling it apparently they get people to send payments in order to end the investigation.

I wonder how much money all these spammers and scammers actually make. It must be lucrative if more and more people keep coming out with them. Better than Uber, probably..

Only 5% of people report as most are too embarrassed to report. The figure right now is just over 5 million for phone scams. So it is very lucrative.

 

[JoeK333]