jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
that the scam forum no longer exists. If it were not for reading that forum, I might have fallen for this:
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back alley
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get over it already.
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
Do you mean it will be resurrected, Joe?
back alley
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not to my knowledge...
i meant to say...stop whining about changes to the site, it gets tiresome.
if people have complaints then contact the owner directly and start a dialogue, get to the heart of things immediately.
this is a general comment.
joe
i meant to say...stop whining about changes to the site, it gets tiresome.
if people have complaints then contact the owner directly and start a dialogue, get to the heart of things immediately.
this is a general comment.
joe
FrankS
Registered User
I just (today) got one of those messages in my email too.
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
back alley said:
It was not whining, it was appreciation of the help I got from forum members in the past.
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sorry, it seemed liked whining.
hard to tell the difference i guess.
joe
hard to tell the difference i guess.
joe
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
Still- it would be nice to be able to warn fellow members about this kind of thing.
pesphoto
Veteran
I get these type of ebay and Paypal emails almost daily. I just report them as spam and move on.
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drewbarb
picnic like it's 1999
Um, forgive me, but nobody with any internet savy whatsoever should fall for those things. The horrendous grammar and poor spelling should sound only one of several alarm bells. It's 2007- this sort of basic internet scam is well known. I thought it was common knowledge by now that if you recieve a suspect message like this, do not to click on any links, but contact the company the message purports to be from and ask if there is a legitimate problem, and report the scam.
If this isn't clear, I hardly think a forum for photography is the place you should be looking for help.
If this isn't clear, I hardly think a forum for photography is the place you should be looking for help.
sircarl
Well-known
Jaap,
I generally ignore e-mails supposedly from banks/companies/auction sites where simple words like "tried" are mis-spelled. It's small things like this that are the giveaway.
I generally ignore e-mails supposedly from banks/companies/auction sites where simple words like "tried" are mis-spelled. It's small things like this that are the giveaway.
darkkavenger
Massimiliano Mortillaro
For the english-native members, please kindly remember that some of us foreigners are "fluent" in english, yet it is not our mother language therefore it is easier for some of us to "fall" in such traps and misread, or rather skip a poorly-written word or sentence.
Just another point of view
Max
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Just another point of view
Max
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jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
I ignore them as well, they are usually easy to spot, but I still remember my own wide-eyed innocence when I first started using thInternet. Fortunately that was so long ago that scammers were not up to speed yet.
drewbarb
picnic like it's 1999
darkkavenger said:For the english-native members, please kindly remember that some of us foreigners are "fluent" in english, yet it is not our mother language therefore it is easier for some of us to "fall" in such traps and misread, or rather skip a poorly-written word or sentence.
Just another point of view
Max
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OK, this is a good point, and forgive me if I sounded harsh. In typically English-centric fashion, I was ignoring this obvious situation. But the advice- minus the dismissive tone- still stands. Never click on a link in a message like this- contact the company seperately, and ask if it's legitimate before taking any action.
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
I have a very specific e-mail address tied for that type of correspondence. I have filters on the other e-mail accounts to put it in a folder, where I can just forward to the abuse/spam/etc. departments of each.pesphoto said:
steve garza
Well-known
I agree with the Avenger.....
I agree with the Avenger.....
To use poor spelling/punctuation as benchmark for scams is not really logical.
I agree with the Avenger.....
darkkavenger said:For the english-native members, please kindly remember that some of us foreigners are "fluent" in english, yet it is not our mother language therefore it is easier for some of us to "fall" in such traps and misread, or rather skip a poorly-written word or sentence.
Just another point of view
Max
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To use poor spelling/punctuation as benchmark for scams is not really logical.
back alley
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maybe not logical but it follows a pattern.
Xmas
Veteran
drewbarb said:
Well dyslexic old Noel cannot accept your post as correct e.g. you have managed to spell seperately wrong, tusk tusk, such an email might be typed by a tired worker and might have miss spellings/typos. If you send money I'll send a specc checker.
Noel
Oops troll warning, ahhh the sun rise...
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it's tsk, tsk noel, a tusk is on an elephant...
jarski
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I almost fell one of these as well..
it was because at same time I had used eBay & Paypal quite a lot, usually my accounts rest for years without any activity. I am also non-native with English, perhaps there were grammatic errors there, perhaps not.
luckily I remembered the warnings about phishing, before doing anything.
I have used "the net" since the very beginning, perhaps my "internet savyness" have degraded recently...
it was because at same time I had used eBay & Paypal quite a lot, usually my accounts rest for years without any activity. I am also non-native with English, perhaps there were grammatic errors there, perhaps not.
luckily I remembered the warnings about phishing, before doing anything.
I have used "the net" since the very beginning, perhaps my "internet savyness" have degraded recently...