Latest scam of the month-reminder to be aware

[Nick12]

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Originally Posted by braumeister Funniest one I've seen in a while was a neighbor who put a washing machine out by the road with a sign "Works perfectly -- FREE". It sat there for a week. Then he changed the sign to "$50" and it was stolen that night.

That's awesome. I'm going to try that approach.

[Happyras]

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Originally Posted by Chuckanut Thanks for the warning. You might consider handing the check and letters off to the Post Office. Using the mail to defraud people is a crime. Do they still have postal inspectors?

Well, I went through the whole reporting process to both the post office and the Fed's, in the end of each report (on-line) they said they would review for for insight into current cases, but would not be following up to do anything specific. In other words, a waste of time.

Apparently, this is why there are so many scammers out there, there is no official follow up to any complaint. We have no protection under the law it seems.

[scrabbler1]

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Originally Posted by CardsFan Got one today from "Walmart". DW has been "selected" to participate in a survey for a $90 gift card. Given the email address is: zdglopi-aJ9UTQ21z8u-no...@qpoan.retrospun.com via boxyenews.com I think I will pass. Usually, these go to the spam folder, but this one made it through.

I get these a lot, too, from Walgreens, Best Buy, Costco, CVS.... They always have these gobbledygook email addresses, too, like what you wrote. And, they address me by the first part of my email address (which has no part of my name), another giveaway that it's spam.

I set my spam filter to its most strict setting, so these emails go to my spam folder, where I can add the domain name to my block list, probably worthless because they change domain names like we change our socks, and I unfortunately can't specify wild cards in the list of blocked domain names.