iPodTouchforXmas
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Q: Emails requesting your personal information

Dear sirs,

i received the email below, supposedly from a refugee of the Syria crisis, asking me for personal information:

 

Hello,

I’m General Dabain  Ivalah a Congolese by nationality, presently in Spain due to War in Syria.

I got your email address through google yellow page.

have a transaction involved transferring of funds amounted to US$40 USDM I want you to invest. Please upon the receipt of your reply, I will give you the full details on how the project will be executed; in addition I am willing to offer you Thirty percent of the total sum.

But considering the money involved, it is necessary for me to be sure of the person to whom I will be entrusting this transaction, precisely the Funds and I know that you do not know the nature of this transaction and I am sure you have not done this kind before. Therefore for us to  proceed forward to me the bellow information for proceedings:

1) Your Full Name:

2) Present address:

3) Telephone:

Yours sincerely,

General Dabain  Ivalah

 

MY question is: how can I report this and ensure my accounts are safe on the Internet.

many thanks for replying ,

TIm ****

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Posted on Oct 21, 2016 10:02 AM

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Q: Emails requesting your personal information

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  • by IdrisSeabright,

    IdrisSeabright IdrisSeabright Oct 21, 2016 10:01 AM in response to iPodTouchforXmas
    Level 9 (59,729 points)
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    Oct 21, 2016 10:01 AM in response to iPodTouchforXmas

    Don't respond to the email. Delete it. It's a common scam.

  • by seventy one,Helpful

    seventy one seventy one Oct 21, 2016 7:08 PM in response to IdrisSeabright
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    Oct 21, 2016 7:08 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

    Plus 1, Meg.   There is no need for a report, it is too common.   Simply delete.   Your accounts are safe if you don't click on anything other than delete.   I love the spelling of "bellow".

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Oct 21, 2016 12:24 PM in response to seventy one
    Level 6 (8,187 points)
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    Oct 21, 2016 12:24 PM in response to seventy one

    With all respect, I beg to differ

    reportphishing@apple.com "Carbon Copy's" the message to folks who actually DO something (methods & means unknown)

    Security Awareness Training | Email Phishing Security | PhishLabs

    https://www.phishlabs.com/

    All of these Spanish Prisoner emails are very likely easily tracked - if for nothing else shutting down that particular email account - and hopefully putting pressure on the email provider or Internet Hosting outfit that allows the mail server to run upon it gear or co-host in its racks

    TimeWarnerCable (Roadrunner - seen as " @ xx.rr.com, where xx is the state abbreviation) used to (and may still) find SPAN/Scam sources and block entire range of IP addresses fro the HOST where ONE SPAMmer had a email account! (from experience at a software outfit that served Real Estate agents in several states)

     

    At bottom, it is no big deal to Apple and PhishLabs is likely on retainer or smesuch agreement

  • by IdrisSeabright,

    IdrisSeabright IdrisSeabright Oct 21, 2016 12:28 PM in response to ChitlinsCC
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    Oct 21, 2016 12:28 PM in response to ChitlinsCC

    ChitlinsCC wrote:

     

    With all respect, I beg to differ

    reportphishing@apple.com "Carbon Copy's" the message to folks who actually DO something (methods & means unknown)`

    This is not a phishing scam related to Apple. That address if for reporting phishing emails that pretend to be from Apple.

     

    Sure, you can waste your time reporting spam if you want. But it's not going to have any effect. Scammers will simply create new accounts. A decent email provider will block them from ever getting to you.

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Oct 21, 2016 3:28 PM in response to IdrisSeabright
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    Oct 21, 2016 3:28 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

    Howdy Meg - I mean Idris - I mean Meg!

    I didn't get a look at what got edited out, so I (stupidly?) assumed that the SENDER address must have been some Apple domain .mac, .iCloud or somesuch

     

    With regard to the futility, I still disagree (but not strongly) - report it to the proper authority!

    My ISP email has a pretty good SPAM filter. Reporting to its spamblock @ webmaster.rr.com helps TRAIN the filter so that these scams end up in the Junk folder

     

    Get a job, girl! (I'll fix you up with reference too)