Scammers are a wily bunch, thankfully I don't suffer a great deal with them. If I get an E mail claiming to be from a company I deal with, I bypass the E mail and contact the firm directly to query it.
Watching yesterdays Rip off Britain on the Beeb once again warning users of possible E mail scams especially when "transferring" money.
Yesterday dealt with a young couple who had saved up for years to put a deposit on a house, the deposit they were putting down was a staggering £100,000 {good god what were they buying?}
All the deposit transaction she decided to do on line, obviously because of the busy life she leads. The bottom line was scammers somehow got into her E mails and when the time came for her to transfer the money to her bank, they posed as the bank with a scam bank account and she put the money in that account, in short she's lost the whole hundred grand, basically the bank are not going to reimburse them as they didn't heed the warning signs.
I re iterate, I cannot find it in me to feel sorry for them, for any amount, especially of that magnitude FIND TIME!
Not to put not too finer point on it.... had that been ME with say just £50 let alone £100,000 I would have visited my nearest branch and had a face to face over the counter one to one with a member of staff to seal the deal, not only that, I would have held their youngest child hostage till the deal had gone through.
Most peoples lives are too dependant on a computers and this is what the problem is, scammers are always one step ahead.
I'm not saying I will NEVER be scammed, but even if they DO get any money out of me....... It won't be much, and they would have had to work for it.