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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hairs on August 20, 2011, 08:53:35 AM
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I forgot to post this up the other day.
An email doing the rounds ATM is the 'Uniform traffic ticket'.
The Attachment carries a VIRUS.
Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/trafficticket.asp)
I guess some would open it without a second thought, especially those that travel through speed cameras constantly.
I run all my email accounts through Gmail, which has picked up at lest 4 of these a day over the last few days.
Just a heads up, please don't open the attachment.
:cheers:, hope you have a great weekend & safe travels.
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Surely nobody would believe you could get a traffic ticket by email? Has common sense ceased to exist?
Cheers, Tony
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Unfortunatley, I'd believe some people must fall for it, for the scamers to try it.
Just like the Nigerian Scam, The Computer tech guy saying you have viruses on your machine and a host of others.
Now hopefully, with word of mouth, and keeping others informed of these things it is harder for them to rip people off.
I reckon everyone with a computer should book mark Snoops and check it out every now and then, I might save some pain & embarrassment at the lest.
I hate seeing people getting ripped off.
:cheers:
PS, while I was replying, I just received another one.
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I've been getting them too. However I have not been in New York to get a traffic ticket and it has been 18 months since I was in the states. Sometimes these make me laugh.
Regards
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However I have not been in New York to get a traffic ticket
Hmm, so people don't read a lot of what they get in the mail even. Ya know, they only see what they want to see.
A lot of us are a wake up to these things, but some of our older friends aren't. It gets under my skin when they get ripped off. They take a lot of things at face value.
:cheers: