A scammer impersonated one of my clients, and tried to induce me to send the net proceeds of a commercial sale by wire transfer, directly to his "new investment account." It didn't work. I always confirm transfers of funds -- both ways -- by telephone backed up by email or fax to an address of which I am confident.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 11:17 AM P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > I just spent the last three days dealing with a scammer who was > impersonating my lawyer by e-mail. Tried to get me to buy $500 worth of > iTunes cards so he/she/it could pay for a "legal" document that, let's > just abbreviate this, that "hshit" needed to download and was out of > town on and didn't have access to "hshits" regular funding. > > I played along for a bit, not being entirely sure it was a scam until > the $500 amount was mentioned, what is it with these a**h***s and $500 > anyway, after which the smell of rat was unmistakable. > > Nothing remarkable about this except the manner in which I was > approached directly. > > It's a dangerous internet out there, be careful people. > > I used asterisks not because I had to, this is a private mailing list > after all, but because I wanted to. > > -- > America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. > America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. > - P.J. O'Rourke > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
