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Hello Fraud?????

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RStar

RStar Report 20 Jun 2007 13:06

Yvonne, I fell for that one. I gave the required email addresses of people I thought wouldnt mind....and it said I needed to put more in, as some were 'similar' etc. This carried on and I realised they just wanted peoples email addresses. I regretted doing it but there was nothing I could do. I clicked cancel immediately and shut down the page, but all those people have received spam from the site now. I ve apologised to everyone but it makes me mad spammers can masquerade under legit sites.

♫♪ Yvonne from Oz ♫♪

♫♪ Yvonne from Oz ♫♪ Report 20 Jun 2007 12:27

Don't know if this is the same, but at one point in time I was contacted by a school site as my addy had been given by a family contact on genes. Turned out that to access the'free' site you had to give about 10 friend's addys. needless to say I was less than impressed! Vonny

Winter

Winter Report 20 Jun 2007 12:04

Actually, it's my emails I dread looking at. Must have reached four figures by now as I haven't been in there for weeks. I'll be lucky if a handful are genuine and from people I know. Aileen xxx

MarionfromScotland

MarionfromScotland Report 20 Jun 2007 12:02

I got this. I have no idea wher it came from but the name given is one of my family surnames. You have been invited to connect as friends with 'name given' Please accept or reject this invitation by clicking below: http://www.bebo.com/in/4270889719a536802576b133 Kindest regards ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Please do not reply directly to this email. This email was sent to you at the direct request of 'name given' and her email addy. You have not been added to a mailing list. Marion

.•:*¨¨*:• ★Jax in Wales★.•:*¨¨*:•.

.•:*¨¨*:• ★Jax in Wales★.•:*¨¨*:•. Report 20 Jun 2007 11:53

I had an invitation from a Sean to join his msn contacts group about 10 minutes ago. I dont know a Sean so just deleted it. Jax xx

Winter

Winter Report 20 Jun 2007 11:46

That's just popped up on my screen telling me Fraud wants to exchange contact details with me. What the heck is that all about? I just zapped it. Anyone else had that. Aileen xxx