I have just received a message telling me i have 15000$ in bitcoins from techfoundme.com.ng.
and to go "here" to retrieve these funds

mcgolly - 2021-09-11 11:12:00

mcgolly wrote:

I have just received a message telling me i have 15000$ in bitcoins from techfoundme.com.ng.
and to go "here" to retrieve these funds

Omg!, do you really need to ask?, ????????
no wonder people fall for scams, they see the $$$$ signs,
It is a SCAM, wake up, Rocket science not needed to work that out, ????
even this is a dead giveaway, 15000$ wrong format for NZ, $sign always 1st!, $15,000.

flossy63 - 2021-09-11 11:25:00

Flossy - I think it is you who has been conned.

wembley1 - 2021-09-11 11:28:00

It is a scam for sure.

tygertung - 2021-09-11 11:55:00

wembley1 wrote:

Flossy - I think it is you who has been conned.

Yeah right!, no way Jose !, I am not stupid!!,

flossy63 - 2021-09-11 11:58:00

mcgolly wrote:

I have just received a message telling me i have 15000$ in bitcoins from techfoundme.com.ng.
and to go "here" to retrieve these funds

Hahah. There's going to be a few clues in the email.
Does it address you by your actual name ?
Does it reference something you've done, (an investment perhaps), and an actual account number which might explain this windfall ?
And as Flossy said the $ sign at the wrong end of the amount is not good. Perhaps you could copy/paste the entire message here so we can see if theres any other give-aways ?

Oh by the way I have a large parcel for you which the courier misdelivered. If you'd like me to on-send it just send your credit card details and I'll sort it out !

nice_lady - 2021-09-11 11:59:00

nice_lady wrote:

Oh by the way I have a large parcel for you which the courier misdelivered. If you'd like me to on-send it just send your credit card details and I'll sort it out !

???? ????............
It alarms me amount of people that just see $ signs and away they go, especially on face book !, oh lordy Lord!!, ????????????????????
when spelling errors in title, not correct format etc,
Vehicles left hand drives, campers up for grabs etc, KFC, Supermarket vouchers etc, but do they take any notice, no only see the $$$ signs, sigh!,
and do they learn NO !,

Edited by flossy63 at 12:23 pm, Sat 11 Sep

flossy63 - 2021-09-11 12:21:00

mcgolly wrote:

I have just received a message telling me i have 15000$ in bitcoins from techfoundme.com.ng.
and to go "here" to retrieve these funds

Honestly, posting some random link into a message board or forum is just stupid and irresponsible, even if it just leads to some prank, you wouldn't know. It could just as easily lead directly to an infected site, and potentially re-infect the user's PC, and potentially any other device on their (home or work) network with a trojan to do Lord knows what. And there are people with enough gullibility or just plain curiosity that won't be able to help themselves.

Of course, anyone actually clicking on such a random link is even more foolish but as I said, they may not be able to help themselves. Shakes head.....

cookee_nz - 2021-09-11 12:22:00

I'd say theres little chance of anyone here getting in trouble with that. It wasn't a clickable link anyway so you'd have to copy/paste it if you were indeed curious enough. The types of folks who lurk here and are curious enough to bother 'going there' are not the types who'd normally be bothered by the consequences as they'd no doubt either be well aware of the possibilities and/or be well able to deal with them.

In saying that if anyone did 'go there' on a link that was dodgy without the skills to deal with it then it'd be a great learning curve.

nice_lady - 2021-09-11 12:29:00

Thanks everyone who took the time to answer.
I also had a phone call from India on my landline but I didn't get to it in time to answer. I didn't call it back but looked up the regional code which showed me it was from India.
I'm just curious as to 1) how the scammers got my email address, which is unusual , not the gmail one and 2) what would they ask me to do if I had clicked on the link.

mcgolly - 2021-09-11 14:52:00

With the phone calls - NEVER call back as if you do then YOU are initiating the call and if it connects automatically to a 'pay per minute' account then you can guarantee you'll be gettiing a BIG bill. Also the phone number displayed may not, and probably ISN'T the ACTUAL number that's called you. It's pretty easy to make the callers number to appear to be any number they want you to see.

How did they get your email addy ? Could be it's been 'pwned' sometime or just it's a plain 'brute force' effort where they essentially guess names, (well a computer does. and it emails millions of victims). As for what they'd ask you to do if you clicked on the link ........we can't really say as we don't know what the link IS. Please don't post it here though. They could have autodownloaded some nasty thing into your computer or they could have just taken over your computer without you knowing to use it in a 'botnet' or they might have infected you with a virus, or, or, or, or...........

Best to be VERY wary with unsolicited emails which promise things.

Chuck your email addy in here, (it IS safe):

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Edited by nice_lady at 3:05 pm, Sat 11 Sep

nice_lady - 2021-09-11 15:02:00

mcgolly wrote:

Thanks everyone who took the time to answer.
I also had a phone call from India on my landline but I didn't get to it in time to answer. I didn't call it back but looked up the regional code which showed me it was from India.
I'm just curious as to 1) how the scammers got my email address, which is unusual , not the gmail one and 2) what would they ask me to do if I had clicked on the link.

Phone - It's simple to spoof the return phone number through a PABX so they might not be calling from India, although that is an outsourcing mecca for these things. Email - I used to suggest joke chain emails, then I suggested they had a cousin that worked at Spark, but there's 100s of ways - is this the westxxxxx@xtra? What happens - somewhere there'll be a processing fee to pay, but really they want your credit card details.

gyrogearloose - 2021-09-11 16:56:00

mcgolly wrote:

I have just received a message telling me i have 15000$ in bitcoins from techfoundme.com.ng.
and to go "here" to retrieve these funds

No of course not.
Of course you have bitcoins, after all you didn't buy them and randomly people are chosen to receive them, via emails to unknown people.
Just pay them, give them your life history and all your details and sit back and wait for the money to fall from the sky.

lythande1 - 2021-09-12 14:14:00

A nice old man invested in a money system in a foreign country and that currency fell through. He gave the card with the remains of that investment of $74,000 to my nice brother. We have enjoyed restaurant dinners for some months now. To set your minds at rest now, the nice man is very very wealthy. I does pay to be nice, no senor?

Edited by olack at 11:56 am, Mon 13 Sep

olack - 2021-09-13 11:56:00

Wow.

nice_lady - 2021-09-13 11:58:00

"techfoundme.com.ng"-

the .ng in the email address is just an alternative spelling for the word SCAM

onl_148 - 2021-09-14 15:00:00