Scam Email

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

I'll phone Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford at BBC's Rip Off Britain tomorrow morning.
We'll get these robbing bastards!

Good man

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

He needs the £20.00 for the electric meter. You do realise how much it costs to run a teleportation unit!

But it's only a one way trip, sounds like a scam to me

 

[JASR]

Not an email but some cock jockey phoned my 80 year old Mum last week claiming to be me.
Claimed to have been in a car crash and had a broken nose which was to explain the difference in voices.
She called him a bastard and hung up.

On a serious note, this is the entry point of the next level of scamming.
The rise of AI coupled with people putting their voices onto video social media means it doesn’t take too many videos for an AI to learn how you speak, and be able to say anything.

Combine that with amount of detail people put on social media about their lives, the links the social media has, and the ever increasing amount of personal data that is in the public domain (hacking, breaches etc), the making of a ‘hi mum, I’ve been robbed of everything, I’m ok, I’m using my friend, Olivia’s phone, we had gone to the pizza restaurant on the plaza I took you too, can you send some money to her account to help pay for …’ voice mail becomes very easy…

 

[Blue Mist]

I've just had an email from Deliveroo.......... oh I thought it said Scran Email. As you were.

 

[shackattack]

Received an email earlier today from British Gas saying they had paid me too much. Rang and spoke to 2 different agents who were adamant it was a scam email. I explained I did not believe this as it contained both my correct account details and my name and address. How could a scammer have possibly guessed those correctly. Also every phone contact on it led me directly to British Gas. After a 3rd phone call the agent confirmed it was genuine and referred to the government payments in March 23. They paid me 4 times and I repaid them back immediately.