URGENT - Email scam please read

[Admin]

Hi everyone,

It has come to my attention that a scammer has been impersonating one of our members, Alf, and reaching out to others—including myself—requesting the purchase of gift cards. Please do not buy any gift cards—it’s a scam.

If you have been contacted, please report it in this thread. If you have already purchased gift cards, please let us know as well.

A major red flag was that “Alf” included three kisses at the end of the message—and let’s be honest, he doesn’t love me that much!

Alf is aware of the situation, but unfortunately, he has not had access to that email address for over three years. His actual email is a Gmail address, not tiscali.co.uk.

Stay vigilant and spread the word!

Admin

 

[wildebus]

+1

 

[The laird]

Scum bags all over the place

 

[Sharon the Cat]

I had it too.
Alf always send me kisses, but I knew immediately it wasn't from him and forwarded it to report@phishing.gov.uk.

 

[maingate]

I have already had two phishing emails that did not get caught as spam as a result of answering 'Alf'. It is no problem as that email address is compromised anyway. It only gets scammers apart from the occasional message and everything gets deleted anyway. I have had my fun with the scammers, I might as well delete it now. As I thought it really was Alf, I gave him an alternate email address to use, so the scammer will have that info and I must be careful when checking emails from now on.

 

[Caz]

This has happened on another forum that Alf belongs to as well.

 

[maingate]

This has happened on another forum that Alf belongs to as well.

I think Alf may have had a 'Trojan' on his computer. I told him to get it checked out, I believe he has a friend who is computer savvy, if he is not.

 

[Scotia]

 

[Tezza33]

 

[trevskoda]

I get about 6 a day but dont open and mark as junk.
Thank heavens for a good operating sys and secure browsers.