Look Out, Look Out, New Scam Mail About
I received an email yesterday. It seemed to be an automated email from ANS Payroll System telling me that my account had been debited to the sum of £356.XX. following the automated stuff, and I quote:
If you have any questions about your payment (including refunds, delivery status, wanting to cancel your payment),please do not hesitate to contact our team by visiting CHANGEDFORLEGALREASONS.COM
Kind of screams "FAKE" from every pixel of the screen, doesn't it?
Anyhow I have just typed "ANS Payroll" in Google and got the same message quoted by Scoobie from The Scream Forum that says: "Do not click on links if you get this email as it will try to infect your pc, Its done to look like you have placed an order etc".
Well they nearly convinced me, but one thing they didn't put, which is quite important if you have just bought £356.98's worth of DVDs, was my postal address. Or even my other contact details! Makes it quite obvious from the email stating all the financial stuff and no personal details that they are a bunch of money-grabbing bar stewards!
I am sure ANS Payroll is really a genuine company. Although through no fault of their own, I am now frankly wary of finding out if they are or not.
The sad thing is, scammers mails will get more and more convincing. I predict in the future that there will be a lot more of these emails that try to tempt us, scare us, infuriate us and probably even bribe us.
In a way it must be a bit of an art form, like Creative Writing or playing a Saxophone, that you get better as you go along. You just have to read it all the way through first and look for your all important personal details.
On another note, I have been reading in my archive and realised that my last blog entry before this one was 10 August (Oops!). Bad bad me! I apologise unreservedly to my loyal followers (?) and assure you that this won't happen again. Although any of you that have children that have been on School holidays for 6 weeks will understand completely where I'm coming from. Even more so when I tell you that the start of term has been further delayed until Thursday. Am I tearing my hair out? Of course.
Also Comments on Postings on my forum have been withdrawn until Blogger can give me a half-decent answer on how to delete individual comments. Basically some lifeform has been trying to add comments promoting his service/product/nothing in particular.
Sorry about that.
If you have any questions about your payment (including refunds, delivery status, wanting to cancel your payment),please do not hesitate to contact our team by visiting CHANGEDFORLEGALREASONS.COM
Kind of screams "FAKE" from every pixel of the screen, doesn't it?
Anyhow I have just typed "ANS Payroll" in Google and got the same message quoted by Scoobie from The Scream Forum that says: "Do not click on links if you get this email as it will try to infect your pc, Its done to look like you have placed an order etc".
Well they nearly convinced me, but one thing they didn't put, which is quite important if you have just bought £356.98's worth of DVDs, was my postal address. Or even my other contact details! Makes it quite obvious from the email stating all the financial stuff and no personal details that they are a bunch of money-grabbing bar stewards!
I am sure ANS Payroll is really a genuine company. Although through no fault of their own, I am now frankly wary of finding out if they are or not.
The sad thing is, scammers mails will get more and more convincing. I predict in the future that there will be a lot more of these emails that try to tempt us, scare us, infuriate us and probably even bribe us.
In a way it must be a bit of an art form, like Creative Writing or playing a Saxophone, that you get better as you go along. You just have to read it all the way through first and look for your all important personal details.
On another note, I have been reading in my archive and realised that my last blog entry before this one was 10 August (Oops!). Bad bad me! I apologise unreservedly to my loyal followers (?) and assure you that this won't happen again. Although any of you that have children that have been on School holidays for 6 weeks will understand completely where I'm coming from. Even more so when I tell you that the start of term has been further delayed until Thursday. Am I tearing my hair out? Of course.
Also Comments on Postings on my forum have been withdrawn until Blogger can give me a half-decent answer on how to delete individual comments. Basically some lifeform has been trying to add comments promoting his service/product/nothing in particular.
Sorry about that.
Posted: 13 September 2005
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