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I have just received a "Nem id" card. (Easy id)
It is a laminated paper card with 100some onetime codes printed on it for use along with logon name and a password on public systems. It will eventually be extended to ones bank account.

As you use up the codes, a counter somewhere will have a new card send to your address.

My country (Denmark) have every citizen numbered at birth, and we are required to keep the "central person register" updated with correct address. It may make this system easier to implement here then elsewhere.
 





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Actually i'd extend the warning beyond specifics.

If it

A) asks for your password
B) is an email

it is

C) a scam.
 
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i do but they all get forwarded to one main email....
i hated checking 5 emails....
 
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NEVER... NEVER... EVER click on a link to PayPal in an E-Mail....
It is a dead giveaway to a Phishing expedition...

PayPal specifically states that they will never send an E-Mail with a link
to their site...:cool:

BTW... reporting that E-Mail to PayPal is also a good idea..


Jerry

I get emails from paypal all the time, with links to their site.... some links make me type in my password... NONE of them were phishing or scams... all were legitimate. Verify email account, accept payment, etc.
 

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You have a risky habit there.
One fine day the mail is from someone else, and contain a link to "Paypal.scam.ru" or such.
Better get used to read the link content before clicking.
 
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You have a risky habit there.
One fine day the mail is from someone else, and contain a link to "Paypal.scam.ru" or such.
Better get used to read the link content before clicking.

Of course I do-but the point is, paypal sends you emails all the time.
 
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I have a crap e-mail with a fake name that I use for all of my "enhance your manhood" orders (about 30/month) :crackup:
But any online games, etc. get the fake e-mail.
LPF is the only one that has my good account, I have had a grand total of 2 spam emails with the good account because it only deals with secure/reputable sites.
 
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Hackers are useful. Not a bad thing to be, at all. Description of "hacker":
Code:
1: one that hacks
2: a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity <a tennis hacker>
3: an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer
4: a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system

Ignore 2. 3 would be the best description of a hacker in computer terms. 4 is how you described it, but it is a mix of 3 and a "thieve"; Exchange/Give a few. Simply being a hacker can mean to be able to solve a problem in way not really "appropriate". But, of course, "inappropriate" does not always mean something "bad" like a thieves description.

Ok so not all hackers are bad, I agree.:)

I got an email last week saying it was from the FBI, I did not have any FBI seal or any government markings. They were trying to give me $57,000.
I forewarded it to the FBI, I thought they would enjoy it. Do they really think I am that stupid! I am not as dumb as I really am! :D

I had a guy on paypal that was using my ss# and found out about it. I reported it to PP and they locked all of his accounts and is also banned from Ebay or so they say. :gun:
 
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Ok so not all hackers are bad, I agree.:)

I got an email last week saying it was from the FBI, I did not have any FBI seal or any government markings. They were trying to give me $57,000.
I forwarded it to the FBI, I thought they would enjoy it. Do they really think I am that stupid! I am not as dumb as I really am! :D

I had a guy on paypal that was using my ss# and found out about it. I reported it to PP and they locked all of his accounts and is also banned from Ebay or so they say. :gun:

Oh I've gotten shit from the FBI too! :san:

Check this out! It's from Paypal@Service.com ... SERVICE.com?
This crap comes from Africa all the time and the sad part is alot of people really fall for it.

Read this crap! It's hilarious!
scam.png


-Tony
 
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Oh I've gotten shit from the FBI too! :san:

Check this out! It's from Paypal@Service.com ... SERVICE.com?
This crap comes from Africa all the time and the sad part is alot of people really fall for it.

Read this crap! It's hilarious!
scam.png


-Tony

Here is the one that i received:

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
Customers Service Hours/Monday To Saturday
Office Hours Monday To Saturday:


Attention Beneficiary,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over the past you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (ICCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us.

We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $6,100,000.00 be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $5,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world were you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). We have advised that this should be the only way at which you are to receive your payment because it is more guaranteed, since over $5 billion was lost on fake check year two (2) 2008.

We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected everything in regards to the release of your $6.1 million United States Dollars to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as it is our duty to protect you. (This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to people which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared for the betterment of the current economic status of the nation and its citizens as he bas always believed (Our Time for Change has come because Change can happen)


Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from UPS website to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully.

Name: Racheal Frank: UPS Tracking Number...1z89249r2210011070 (Shipping, Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Management from UPS)

Name: Zaidi Mohammed: UPS Tracking Number...1z89249r2210011025 (Shipping, Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Management from UPS)

Name: Stephen Medaris: UPS Tracking Number...1z89249r2210011089 (Shipping, Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Management from UPS)

Name: Seddek Farhard: UPS Tracking Number...1z89249r2210011098 (Shipping, Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Management from UPS)

To redeem your fund you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $265 only nothing more and no hidden fees as everything else has been taken cared of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $265 only.

Contact Information
Name: Mr Kelvin Williams
Cell Phone: +234-802-685-6976
Email: lelvinwilliams01@yahoo.cn

Do contact Mr Kelvin Williams of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below, calling him on his hotline will be faster than to email him:


Your full Name:
Your full Address (where you will like your ATM CARD to be sent to):
Home/Cell Phone:
Occupation:
Age:
A Scan Copy Of Your Identity Card For Identification

On contacting him with your details your files would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of $265 via Western Union Money Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order. After which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay, extra fee or any authority raising eyebrow.

Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 24 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive your ATM CARD Shippment Confirmation within the next 24hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.

Once again we are so sure of you receiving your payment at no any other cost as we have taking it upon our duty to monitor everything in other to cub cyber crime that is perpetrated by those impostors.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

ROBERT S. MUELLER,

DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

I already deleted the one for $57,000. this was the second one.
I also just received another one!
These guys are more than likely from Nigeria.
 
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:crackup:I just got this one:

FROM: DUDU. ANNIA
NO: 12 MANDELA CLOSE.
SONTON JOHANNESBURG.
SOUTH-AFRICA.
PHONE+27-74 333 3805

I write to you irrespective of the fact that you don't know me.. I got your contact from your country business directory and through a reliable source. First, I must introduce myself, My Name is Dudu Annia I am a staff of one of the leading banks in South Africa I am writing asking for your indulgence in re-profiling funds, which we want to keep under your supervision. The Funds totaling ($14,700,000) I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund cannot be approved to a local Bank here, because the funds are in US Dollars. The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American, and he died since 2000 in an air crashalong with his wife & Daughter on 31/01/2000 in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 with other passengers on board.

Please, I am proposing 30% for you for your assistance while my colleagues and I receive 60% and 10% earmarked for purposes of taxation in your country and mine. Please if you are interested kindly forward to me the following informations stated below:

(1) Your direct telephone number
(2) Your direct fax number
(3) Your Full Names
(4) Your age
(5) Your Country of Origin
(6) Your Residential Address

And I will send you all the detailed informations and documents that you will need to process an application for the claims of the funds.

Regards
Mr. Dudu Annia.
PHONE+27-74 333 3805


They just don't give up! :horse:
The name Dudu is what this is. :crackup:
 
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